Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2016 09:04:36 -0700
From: Chaim Gingold
Subject: robotic spaces
Here’s my entry for the robotic spaces jam. I didn’t have a clear idea coming in, so doodled some cranes and thought about a live dollhouse with characters that could walk around a reconfigurable space. I then thought about blocks that could move themselves about, including jumping on one another, like a frog. Bret suggested this might be a “frock”—which is already a thing— so “brog” might be the more appropriate unique term. This then made me think of a robotic dung beetle which could move about and roll around various spherical objects on a tabletop.