The Workshop will offer its participants a glimpse into Toyland, in the course of playing with Synthetic Intelligence and experiencing the creation of new toys.
Participants will experience working with electro-primitive sensor-circuits/intelligence-circuits within the title of B.E.A.M. robotics (Biology, Electronics, Aesthetics, and Mechanics) as well as get to know the field of Biomimicry. This session will be concluded with functional models.
During the Workshop, the students will meet some of the key-issues for creating good toys as well as the life-like mechanics. The participants will learn how to handle miniature electronic assemblies, consisted of various components, such as sensors, motors, photovoltaic cells, and LEDs.
Later on, functional breadboard models will be assembled, based on a range of circuits and expression module, demonstrating various concepts for new toys.
The Workshop will be concluded by presenting principal models, video clips and illustrations of the concepts of semi-intelligent toys. The workshop will include two short lectures, toy sample analyzing, brainstorms, group sessions, hands-on model-making and movie watching.