Bronze Fine Art · 2022
Boat Functional Sculpture
- Bronze A' Design Award 2022 in Fine Art
- CLIENT: LuXun Academy of Fine Arts
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 13,302
- Verification code C4EF686BFB · Verify this award
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About Boat Functional Sculpture
Boat is an interactive toy that responds to changes in the surrounding environment. A highly sensitive vibration sensor starts the movement, so the toy can be activated by sound or gesture instead of a mechanical switch. The main drive shaft carries a concave directional track, and the parts inside the groove shift by gravity and push the toy forward. The motion follows the crawling pattern of arthropods, whose spine is echoed by the main axis. All modeling, transmission parts and hardware are made by 3D printing, so complex structures are formed without assembly.
About the Bronze A' Design Award
Boat Functional Sculpture is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a highly prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. Boat Functional Sculpture is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. Boat Functional Sculpture splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.
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- Unique Properties
- Boat is an innovative interactive toy. It provides the novelty and interesting interactive experiences to the users by interactive feedback on the perception of things around it. Boat breaks the monotonous interaction mode between products and users by increasing the impact of environmental changes on the product that greatly enriches the interest of Boat as a toy and consumers' desire to explore products.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Characteristics Complex structures are divided into static mechanism and dynamic mechanism. The characteristic of dynamic integration mechanism is that it is free of assembly and can realize dynamic connection. The traditional mechanical components need to be printed individually step by step and then assemble them together. But 3D printing can save assembly steps and get the whole mechanism without assembly.
- Tags
- 3D printing，Functional sculpture， Innovation，Interaction， Toys
- Production Technology
- For Boat, in addition to sensors and motors, all modeling, transmission mechanism and hardware structure are finished by 3D printing, which perfectly fit the form of modeling and rhythm of transmission mechanism.
- Design Challenge
- The crankshaft shape and fitness of the product have been adjusted several times to make the whole product run smoothly.
- Research
- By observing the movement of arthropods, simulating the spine of arthropod as the main axis of the model, extracting the movement law of arthropods, designing the mechanism model by computer aided tools, and solid works simulation. we determined the movement regulation of the mechanism.
- Inspiration
- Boat offers more possibilities for products to interact between people and the environment. The product is no longer limited to mechanical switches, but can be started through language, gestures, etc.,which bring better interesting experience to users.
- Project Duration
- The project started in July 2021 at Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts, and be completed and produced in October 2021.
- Operation Flow
- Boat is inbuilt highly sensitive vibration sensor, the main shaft surface designs concave directional track. When the sensor feels the vibration, the product starts, the main drive shaft rotates, and the structure in the groove of the rotation shaft moves due to gravity, and pushing the whole forward.
