Kening Zhu (朱克宁)
Hacker, Gamer, Dreamer
The software enables users without programming experience to draw the shape, and design the movements of the paper craft, assign actuators to the different movements, and set the sequence of those movements. The software allows the user to simulate movement using SMA before the automated paper craft is implemented in paper and SMA.
AutoGami
AutoGami is a toolkit for designing automated movable paper craft using the technology of selective inductive power transmission. AutoGami has hardware and software components that allow users to design and implement automated movable paper craft without any prerequisite knowledge of electronics; it also supports rapid prototyping. Apart from developing the toolkit, we have analyzed the design space of movable paper craft and developed a taxonomy to facilitate the design of automated paper craft. AutoGami made consistently strong showings in design workshops, confirming its viability in supporting engagement and creativity as well as its usability in storytelling through paper craft. Additional highlights include rapid prototyping of product design as well as interaction design such as human-robot interactions.
Colleagues: Shengdong Zhao
Reference Design (gerber files) of Hardware: .zip file
Source Code of GUI Software: .zip file
Note: The reference designs for Autogami hardware are distributed under a Creative Commons license Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. The source code of Autogami software are released under under the GPL. Therefore, you can use them on your own derived works, in part or completely, as long as you also adopt the same licenses.