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constructable: interactive construction of functional mechanical devices

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constructable is an interactive drafting table based on a laser cutter that produces precise physical output in every editing step. Users interact by drafting directly on the workpiece using a hand-held laser pointer. The system tracks the pointer, beautifies its path, and implements its effect by cutting the workpiece using a fast high-powered laser cutter. constructable achieves precision through tool-specific constraints, user-defined sketch lines, and by using the laser cutter itself for all visual feedback, rather than using a screen or projection.

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Mueller, S., Lopes, P., Baudisch P. 2012. Interactive Construction: Interactive Fabrication of Functional Mechanical Devices. In Proceedings of UIST '12, 599--606.
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Willis, K. D. D., Xu, C., Wu, J. K., Levin, G., Gross, M. D. 2011. Interactive fabrication: new interfaces for digital fabrication. In Proceedings of TEI '11, 69--72.

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SIGGRAPH '13: ACM SIGGRAPH 2013 Talks
July 2013
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DOI:10.1145/2504459
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  • (2024)DungeonMaker: Embedding Tangible Creation and Destruction in Hybrid Board Games through Personal Fabrication TechnologyProceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3613904.3642243(1-20)Online publication date: 11-May-2024
  • (2016)FusePrintProceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems10.1145/2901790.2901792(146-157)Online publication date: 4-Jun-2016

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