Optical tape sensor

Venture Category: Scientific Instruments

Community: Sensorica

This venture is looking for a new animator.

Objectives

Develop and commercialize an open source optical bending sensor. Two types are in development:

Description

Applications

  • Robotics: flexible robot limbs, feedback control of motion and increased precision and efficiency

  • Structures: monitoring flexing of large structures

Contents

Communication and coordination

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Coordination tools

  • Shared calendar

Planning

Status: dormant - see Project news

Short-term goals

  • Build directional sensor prototype based on 1mm PMMA - DONE!

  • Build low-cost tape sensor prototype - DONE!

  • Outreach campaign for the low-cost tape sensor in progress

Long-term goals

Needs

  • Optical and mechanical engineering

Notes

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Low cost tape sensor analysis

Rodrigo's doc and spreadsheet.

Milestones

Documentation repository

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Low cost tape sensor

Directional tape sensor

Incentives

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Governance

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VENTURES are COLLABORATIVE, TRANSPARENT (anyone has access to the information that they produce) and OPEN (anyone can participate). They only produce deliverables based on OPEN SOURCE technology. VENTURES have a CUSTODIAN that represents them legally and acts as a trust for their tangible assets. VENTURES can have multiple EXCHANGE FIRMS, which are commercial entities that move products and services developed by VENTURES on the MARKET. EXCHANGE FIRMS oblige themselves by contract with the CUSTODIAN to share PROFIT with all contributors to VENTURES, from which they commercialize PRODUCTS.

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