===== Men & Machines | Mechanical Elements =====
Engineering Design Studio (A5, 015)\\
Thursday, September 29, 2016, 11:50 am – 13:05 pm 

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//Poster from exhibition »The Robots – Man and Machine at the End of the 20th Century«, 1992//

=== Foreword ===
  * Attendance
  * No class next Sunday due to Al-Hijra/Islamic New Year. Also, no class next Tuesday (Felix has to attend a workshop) but feel free to work on your machine projects or the Kinematic Cardboard Model during class time. Next regular meeting will be on [[men_machines_10-06-16|Thursday, Oct. 6]].

=== Links ===
  * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYwPQxbYtc0|Perpetual Storytelling Apparatus]]
  * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxPALCpBR8o|Julius von Bismarck]] is an inventor, designer, and the artist responsible for the controversial image projection "camera," the Fulgurator, among other things
  * [[https://vimeo.com/41009719|Patterned by Nature]] was commissioned by the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences (naturalsciences.org) for the newly built Nature Research Center in Raleigh, North Carolina.
  * Sculptor [[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antony_Gormley|Antony Gormley]]
  * Kinetic works by [[http://www.annelilly.com/index.html|Anne Lilly]]
  * [[https://vimeo.com/103736199|Breaking Wave]] from [[http://plebiandesign.com/employees|Plebian Design]]

=== Case Study Presentation ===

| 13 | //Strandbeasts// by Theo Jansen  |  September 29, 2016    | Raghav Ku.  |

=== Discussion ===
  * Low Tech vs. High Tech
  * Alternative energies to drive machines

=== Homework ===
Improve your cardboard prototype that visualizes one of the Kinematic Models from the Reuleaux Collection (Source: http://www.mae.cornell.edu/about/reuleaux.cfm and https://www.robives.com/mechs)