Robot Construction Workers

Project ‘On The Bri(n)ck,’ a co-op between computer-aided design and computer-aided construction departments at Harvard University, employed the use of a robot to build a wave-like double-wall structure from wooden bricks.

Professor Ingeborg M. Rocker and Graduate School of Design students at Harvard University programmed the crafty robot arm to place 4,100 wooden bricks together to create the complex double-curvature walls.

The project, which was originally created to highlight material and technical limits, may also be used as a model for digital design and education.

Overall the project hopes to highlight the potential of digital fabrication techniques and the role these have in the education of architects. (dezeen)

Sources: dezeen

Digital Interactive Teaching Tools

'Pas a Pas' Promotes Learning Through Use of Everyday Objects

The ‘Pas a Pas’ interactive education tool is a fantastic new product that promotes learning through a digital board, camera and interface. Using the objects provided, and other objects, children can learn simple things like shapes, or more complex things like using stop motion animation to create movies.

Three main modes are programmed: Assisting (guides students to place objects in a certain way, and progresses to helping them learn to create realistic animations with stop motion), Directing (children create their own movies), and Collection (children watch previously recorded movies).

Sources: ishback psfk

Digital Interactive Teaching Tools

'Pas a Pas' Promotes Learning Through Use of Everyday Objects

The ‘Pas a Pas’ interactive education tool is a fantastic new product that promotes learning through a digital board, camera and interface. Using the objects provided, and other objects, children can learn simple things like shapes, or more complex things like using stop motion animation to create movies.

Three main modes are programmed: Assisting (guides students to place objects in a certain way, and progresses to helping them learn to create realistic animations with stop motion), Directing (children create their own movies), and Collection (children watch previously recorded movies).

Sources: ishback psfk