Fractal - A Visual Desiner Tool
Out-of-this-world fashion with function: clothing or accessories for earth or space wear!
Every space traveler – even the robotic ones – should feel? their very best during the journey, infused with the very best data and technology available. Earthlings can follow suit. Design a space data-tech-fashion wearable in the form of clothing or accessories that will collect or distribute data and technology in the following categories:
Design for Interconnectivity (staying more connected to team, community, and tools)
- enhance the work/life experience of humans and/or capabilities of robots
Design for Health (biometrics, physical and emotional health, and/or environmental alerts)
- maintain or improve the health and well-being of the human
- provide early warning for unhealthy environmental factors (air quality, radiation, outgassing, temperature)
Design for Entertainment (sights, sounds, music, activity)
- enhance the human experience whether during work or play
A giant leap towards mass space exploration.
Space exploration requires humans and machines interaction. Robots help us to conduct expetiments, save our lives in danger and solve various hard and critical tasks. As we move further, the assistance from Earth becomes less realistic. At the same time, it is imposible to include a complete set of experts in electronics, engineereing, programming, etc. required.
Fractal is a visual designer tool. A user without programming and advanced electronics skills can link smart-things, clouds, applications (desktop, web, mobile), Neural Networks (AI) etc.
To show Fractal in action we applied it designing a temerature management system. In normal mode a "living module" (located at San-Francisco) sustaints optimal conditions autonomusly. However, when a risk of critical situarion occurs the system calls a "rescue team" from Kyiv. As a real IoT sample it requires no human assistance.
Fractal, Arduino 101, own-made microconroller on STM32, temperature sensor, cooler, water pump
