Sodaconstructor and Festo Muscle
Published by leinberger July 6th, 2006 in technology, software
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Sodaconstructor is one of the smartest web applets to play and learn about the construction of artificial lifeforms while playing with springs masses and muscles. By doing so you are able to explore fundamentals of statics and dynamics in an abstract but playful way. Further it’s an interesting tool to explore adaptabel and active structures.
The smart simplicity of the interface is a good example of how to control complex systems the easy way. Combining the sodaconstructor with an hardware interface to control actuators (like Festo’s Fluidic Muscle MAS) and read out sensors might offer an intuitive way to experiment with adaptive architecture.
image: www.festo.com
In fact thats what the folks at the hyperbody research group at the TU Delft did with their MUSCLE Tower II. But instead of hacking sodaconstructor they used virtools a 3D authoring software. For further information go to www.thegreatesthits.net
image: www.bk.tudelft.nl