Protopiper
Issue: XXIII.2 March + April 2016Page: 8
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Authors:
Harshit Agrawal, Udayan Umapathi, Robert Kovacs, Johannes Frohnhofen, Hsiang-Ting Chen, Stefanie Mueller, Patrick Baudisch
Protopiper is a computer-aided handheld fabrication device that allows users to sketch room-sized objects at actual scale. The key idea behind Protopiper is its main building material: It uses adhesive tape formed into tubes rather than extruded plastic or photopolymer lines. Since the resulting tubes are hollow, they offer excellent strength-to-weight ratio and thus scale well to large structures. By allowing users to sketch and prototype room-sized objects at actual scale, users can verify their designs during prototyping. For example, they can make sure that objects fit with the room or with their bodies.
http://hpi.de/baudisch/projects/protopiper.html
Agrawal, H., Umapathi, U., Kovacs, R., Frohnhofen, J., Chen, H-T, Mueller, S., and Baudisch, P. Protopiper: Physically sketching room-sized objects at actual scale. Proc. of the 28th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software & Technology. ACM, New York, 427–436, 2015. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2807442.2807505
Harshit Agrawal, Udayan Umapathi, Robert Kovacs, Johannes Frohnhofen, Hsiang-Ting Chen, Stefanie Mueller, and Patrick Baudisch, Hasso Plattner Institute
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