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Hybrid Protoptyes I was a three-day intensive design and prototyping workshop held in New York City the weekend of January 08-09, 2010.
As architects and designers, we make things and build objects that interact with other objects, people, and networks. We strive for faster and simpler methods to build prototypes in the cheapest possible way, yet we are frequently hindered by temporal and practical factors that arise in the process of bringing our ideas to life. Firefly is the new paradigm for hybrid prototyping, offering a comprehensive set of software tools dedicated to bridging the gap between Grasshopper (a free plug-in for Rhino) and the Arduino micro-controller. It allows near real-time data flow between the digital and physical worlds – enabling the possibility to explore virtual and physical prototypes with unprecedented fluidity.
Hybrid Protoptyes I was a three-day intensive design and prototyping workshop held in New York City the weekend of January 08-09, 2010.
As architects and designers, we make things and build objects that interact with other objects, people, and networks. We strive for faster and simpler methods to build prototypes in the cheapest possible way, yet we are frequently hindered by temporal and practical factors that arise in the process of bringing our ideas to life. Firefly is the new paradigm for hybrid prototyping, offering a comprehensive set of software tools dedicated to bridging the gap between Grasshopper (a free plug-in for Rhino) and the Arduino micro-controller. It allows near real-time data flow between the digital and physical worlds – enabling the possibility to explore virtual and physical prototypes with unprecedented fluidity.
This fast-paced workshop focused on hardware and software prototyping techniques. Using remote sensors, microcontrollers (Arduino), and actuators, we built virtual and physical prototypes that can communicate with humans and the world around them. Through a series of focused exercises and design tasks, each attendee made prototypes that are configurable, sensate, and active.
Hybrid Prototypes was conceived through a collaboration between Studio Mode and Andrew Payne/LIFT Architects/Grasshopper Primer/Firefly.
As part of a larger online infrastructure, modeLab, the workshop provided participants with continued support and knowledge to draw upon for future learning.
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