Codename: F
Mechanical Installations
This is a collection of 4 medium-sized mechanical installations, combining cute characters to construct a real-time changing spectacle. Each installation will continuously perform its own repetitive choreographic movements, independent yet interconnected, including visual fusion and data correlation.
Sep 2024
Wood, Resin, servos
Arduino, Fusion 360, Blender

This project is aimed to build a Second World that equivalent to our world, the Second World(SW) is the world builded by computer,and I call our Universe the Original World(OW)。Leibniz believed that our world is the best of all possible worlds, chosen by God. But it might be over optimistic.If all possible worlds are merely different rules running on a Cellular Automaton, and The God as the world machine is largely the work as a Turing machine, then our world is just from a contingent computational process. The Second World, as a pure computable world without any undecidable and uncomputable, may be a more perfect world compared to the Original World.

Continuing the concept and technology from "Codename: J," I want to construct an environment with my character, where the audience, as they are observed, steps into this space and can only see fragmented, disjointed pieces. In the moment these characters assemble them together, the audience can recognize certain identifiable objects, but in the next instant, everything dissolves back into fragments.






Technical Implementation
In the design of the mechanical structure, I largely followed the design process from "Codename: J." I first created rough sketches in Motion Gen, then moved on to Fusion to produce a complete animation simulation. After that, all the structures were either laser-cut or 3D printed. As an inexperienced carpenter with limited professional skills, reducing the amount of manual work helped to avoid many errors, such as cutting with a saw or drilling holes with a power drill.


Mechanical Design
- Mechanical Draft01: Basic movement designed in Motion gen.
- Mechanical Draft02: Remaking mechanical structures and simulate movement in Fusion 360.






Prototypes
- Mechanical Final: Simulating all movements motivated by servos and stepper motors. And write these movements in Arduino, I used seeduino Xiao for this project.
- Prototype01: Driven by servos, all the arms are laser-cut and assembled with bearings.
- Prototype02: An ordinary chair, punctured and restructured, becomes a artwork merged with other mechanical structure.
Character design
Modelling and Sculpting in Blender
Airbrush Painting




- Modeling in Blender: The characters: F are designed and modeled in Blender.
- 3D print: Then the characters are 3D print with a resin printer.
- Airbrush Paint: The parts were painted with an airbrush and acrylics, with over 50 individually colored components in total.