Blow Type
Typographic exploration applying soft robotic principles. This project was part of the Tijuana-San Diego World Design Capital 2024 class at SDSU and was presented at The Art Pavilion during the San Diego Festival of Science and Engineering.
Project
Typographic Exploration
Year
2024
Soft robotics is a subfield of robotics that uses flexible materials, like silicon rubber, to substitute the metal or rigid materials commonly used in robotics. These are inspired by natural structures, like the tentacle of an octopus. Soft robotics are mainly being used in healthcare and ocean exploration.
What are Soft-Robotics?
Sketches
Digital Sketches
The design is made from fabric or laser-cut plastic, placed between two layers of silicon rubber to create an air channel. Then, we connect an air pump and control the air flow with a microcomputer.
Process
Materials: silicone rubber and fabric
San Diego Festival of Science & Engineering: Art Pavilion
Photography by YinYu
Photography by Xavier Vazquez
Video by Xavier Vazquez
Photography by YinYu
Photography by YinYu
