FlowIO
FlowIO Pneumatics Development Platform by Ali Shtarbanov is a winner of the 2021 Silver A' Design Award in Scientific Instruments and Research Equipment Design.
FlowIO is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs.
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FlowIO is the first fully-integrated, miniature pneumatics platform for control, actuation, and sensing of soft robots and programmable materials. A set of swappable, magnetically connected modules allows it to satisfy diverse application needs of researchers, artists, designers and makers working on a variety of pneumatically controlled projects. A software toolkit with mobile and desktop graphical interfaces, Bluetooth controls, and APIs for Arduino and JavaScript — enable users from any technical background to get started and unleash their creativity with FlowIO. What will you create?
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FlowIO by Ali Shtarbanov
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Pneumatics Development Platform
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Scientific Instruments and Research Equipment Design Award Winner in 2021.
Silver Winner
FlowIO Pneumatics Development Platform
FlowIO is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs. Silver winners are tremendously brilliant and exceedingly creative works that illustrate the outstanding expertise, talent, and acuity of their designers. FlowIO is expected to be a wonderful, showpiece work that is remarkably professional and profoundly innovative. This Silver A' Design Award-winning design is a highly notable, admired invention that benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. FlowIO is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparkles amazement and wonderment.
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Ali Shtarbanov
Ali Shtarbanov is a Human-Computer Interaction researcher and Ph.D. student at MIT Media Lab. He develops platforms, tools, and enabling technologies that empower makers, researchers, designers, and artists with new technological opportunities to rapidly bring projects and ideas to life, enabling them to create the futures they envision. Ali's primary mission is to make opportunities for creativity, prototyping, and innovation more seamless and more accessible for people from all technical and all socioeconomic backgrounds.
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Ali Shtarbanov, MIT Media Lab
Ali Shtarbanov is a Human-Computer Interaction researcher and Ph.D. student at MIT Media Lab. He develops platforms, tools, and enabling technologies that empower makers, researchers, designers, and artists with new technological opportunities to rapidly bring projects and ideas to life, enabling them to create the futures they envision. Ali's primary mission is to make opportunities for creativity, prototyping, and innovation more seamless and more accessible for people from all technical and all socioeconomic backgrounds.
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