The Last Frontier
“See that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.” … Read More →
Sit & Make: Sitting and Making
Finally! Time to test Sit & Make. Sitting Making a chair is simple. A user just has to sit down, find a comfortable position and press the red button to… Read More →
Sit & Make: Final Forms
The simpler the better, the age old adage goes, and so it proved with Sit & Make. During my experimentation, I created more and more complex systems for generating forms,… Read More →
Sit & Make: Experiments
As I mentioned in my last post, I am not as familiar with Grasshopper as I would like to be, so I took some time to explore different ways of… Read More →
Sit & Make: Form from Values
Now that I have the data coming in from the chair, I have to figure out how to transform it into a new design. The from should be abstract enough… Read More →
Sit & Make: Data In
Enough talk, let’s build some stuff. This post is all about getting my hands dirty by wiring and testing the physical component of Sit & Make. Wiring (and Soldering) When… Read More →
Sit & Make: Blueprint
Sit & Make uses data collected from how you sit on a chair to derive a new, more abstract form that can inspire future chair designs. There are two main… Read More →
Sit & Make: Intro
Chairs. They have been around since the dawn of civilization, evolving and changing as new materials are developed and as trends come and go. It seems that if you want… Read More →
Learning Alarm: Simple RL Alarm
The first version of Learning Alarm is now live. Using TensorFlow, I implemented a very simple neural network that monitors an alarm clock application and uses reinforcement learning to improve… Read More →
Learning Alarm: RL Model
The reinforcement learning problem presented in Learning Alarm is fairly straightforward. Our goal is to learn the best way to wake someone up. Each day, Learning Alarm will try out a… Read More →
Learning Alarm: Plan & Setup
More and more people are beginning to use their phones as their alarm clocks and why not? They have a variety of alarm apps they can choose from, set their… Read More →