Moving Eye
This is a project using 3D printed and laser cutting materials to complete. The idea is to have an eye moving within the frame constrained by the pad to mimic the eye movement that is horizontal. By clicking on the screen on P5 website, the user could move the eye into three different poisiton, the is from left, mid, to right.
I got this eye out of a sudden. Originally I was still thinking of the idea of this project, but I couldn’t come up with one, yet when I am playing a videogame that has a scene when a monster perform a jumpscare and rush up to the screen at an almost jumping out of the screen distance, I could see the monster’s eyes are moving in order to furthur enhence the scary feeling, that is where I came up of this project idea.
However, even though I had helps from many people, and I have created a somewhat close product of what I aimed to achomplish, the project didn’t make it to the end. The eye component was cracked in an accident, and by the time when I come to the class the eye was already almost cracked apart, and when I got to the dorm, it is already completely cracked, so I couldn’t provide a moving in action video.
Within this page I have attached three of the autodesk model that I have used to create this project, which I have separeted the models into three parts, the eye, the pad, and the lever.
As a reflection, there are many things I have learned throughout this process, the usage of 3D printing and laser cutting are both things I have heard and see but never got a hand on before, I am very excited that I have learned the basics of using them. The usage of arduino is very new to me, since I didn’t choose interaction lab, learning how to use it is intersting. The lastly, when working in autodesk, don’t get too excited and put in numbers in the scale slot just by feeling, the object looks fairly small in the autodesk, but when it came out of the laser cutting/3D printing machine, its scale may be very wrong.