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Magnetic plotter: (a) add-on mounted onto a 3-axis CNC. (b) add-on electronics viewed from above. (c) Closeup of the plotting end effector, consisting of an cone-tipped electromagnet for writing and a hall effect sensor for reading magnetic programs.
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In this paper, we present Mixels, programmable magnetic pixels that can be rapidly fabricated using an electromagnetic printhead mounted on an off-the-shelve 3-axis CNC machine. The ability to program magnetic material pixel-wise with varying magnetic force enables Mixels to create new tangible, tactile, and haptic interfaces. To facilitate the cre...
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... illustrates the selective patterns' ability to provide affordances that guide human assembly tasks, and our ability to plot arbitrary magnetic patterns as visual textures. Haptic Feedback: Figure 13 shows how we can create an arbitrarily large magnetically programmed canvas that provides haptic feedback to a user's finger that has a magnetically programmed token attached to it. The canvas is programmed to exhibit repulsion at chosen locations and agnosticism at others. ...
