Bloctopus: A Novice Modular Sensor System for Playful Prototyping
Bloctopus: A Novice Modular Sensor System for Playful Prototyping
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Bloctopus：用于有趣原型设计的新手模块化传感器系统
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10.1145/2677199.2680581
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2015
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通讯作者：
Paulo Blikstein
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作者：
Joel Sadler;Kevin Durfee;L. Shluzas;Paulo Blikstein
原型设计使设计师能够快速验证设计概念，收集反馈，并从错误中快速学习。然而，当传感器需要更高级别的功能时，新手会在技术实现方面遇到困难。现有的新手电子工具包，如Arduino，降低了电子实验的门槛，但仍然需要手动创建电路和软件编程能力。我们提出了Bloctopus，一个模块化的电子原型工具包，允许通过USB直接电气接口，并与乐高块的物理接口。我们提出了独立的传感器模型，其中每个模块可以直接与计算机或微控制器接口，使用音乐消息传递通过麦克风。我们表明，模块可以编程与简化的数据流模型在基于Web的可视化编程界面。最后，我们提出了一个原型案例研究，展示了可以使用乐高作品，结合功能电子模块创建的设备的表现力。
Tangible prototyping enables designers to rapidly iterate design concepts, gather feedback, and learn quickly from mistakes. However, when a higher level of functionality is needed with sensors, novices struggle with technical implementation. Existing novice electronics toolkits, such as Arduino, have lowered the threshold to electronic experimentation, but still require manual creation of circuits and software programming ability. We present Bloctopus, a modular electronic prototyping toolkit that allows direct electrical interfacing over USB, and physical interfacing with LEGO blocks. We present the stand-alone sensor model, where each module can directly interface with either a computer or microcontroller, using musical message passing over MIDI. We show that the modules can be programmed with a simplified data flow model in a web-based visual programming interface. Finally, we present a prototyping case study that demonstrates the expressivity of devices that can be created using LEGO pieces, combined with functional electronic modules.