…so this semester I was in a class called Immersive Environments. It was pretty much a class similiar to Dima’s but on steroids.  I worked with two other students, another architect and a master’s student in penn’s robotics department.  the premise of the semester was a month long “bootcamp” where architects were introduced to simple engineering topics including: leds, soddering, motors, gear systems, etc.  the rest of the semester got even more convoluted as we were also paired with a local theatrical group PIG IRON; with them we were to design responsive machines for the set design of A Mid Summer Night’s Dream.   In the end this is a video of what we produced… it was a flower made with wire, chip, 2 motors, acrylic, and fishing wire ( a little black spray paint didn’t hurt it either).  the flower could rotate left and right and open and close. in regards to the play it was part of the magical forest that Puck resided in….

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