Techno Babble

Topobo is a 3D constructive assembly system with kinetic memory, which provides the ability to record and playback physical motion.

By snapping together a combination of Passive (static) and Active (motorized) components, people can quickly assemble dynamic biomorphic forms like animals and skeletons, animate those forms by pushing, pulling, and twisting them, and observe the system repeatedly play back those motions.

Created as a project (circa 2004) at the Tangible Media Group at MIT – developed by Amanda Parkes and Hayes Raffle.

http://tangible.media.mit.edu/projects/topobo/

The main web-site is at

http://web.media.mit.edu/~hayes/topobo/

or

http://www.rafelandia.com/topobo/index.html

and a brochure is available from

http://web.media.mit.edu/~hayes/topobo/aec/bookletlowres.pdf

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