Robotwist Jar Opener
Robotwist is an automatic jar opener that has helped millions of elderly and weaker handed people to open jars or all sizes. Mark Sanders was the innovation, design and engineering genius on this amazing product. I was brought in to do design engineering on some of the internal components, like the gears, the jaws, fitting…
Roboflux
The Toroflux is a cool flow toy. The Fabulous Danny and I created this motorised version, with a loop of string and a motor to pull the string up as the Toroflux rolls down. In April, this video went viral on Instagram with 250,000 views. Danny developed all the electronics and control, with the time-of-flight…
Rolling Waves – Kinetic Ring
Rolling Waves is a kinetic sculpture that mechanically recreates a Contact Juggling move called the palm circle. Late-night Concept sketches During assembly This project is done. When I get back to this, the next things to do are:
Spatial Haptics
Spatial haptics is a transducer-based system, developed with the fabulous Robin Thorn, for some upcoming research at Bristol University. The system is an array of 16 haptic vibration transducers, each with a force sensor, controlled by a custom circuit and with purpose-built spatialiser software. The array of transducers allows the user to feel the sensation…
