Tutting Helper

Inspiration

I've been a dancer for 11 years now. Finger tutting is a type of dance that involves intricate movements of the fingers.The word "tutting" refers to use of angular movements reminiscent of Egyptian hieroglyphics. It become integrated into modern hip hop only a few years ago.

How it works

Basically, I made part of the code on Open Scad in such a way that people would be modifying individual values that correspond to different lengths depending on their hand size, instead of the actual CAD file. It provides as many right angles that 4 hands or 2 partners in heavily tutting dance would provide for variation because it has so many right angles within the 3-D figure

Challenges I ran into

Two 3-D printers have been off and on having problems so the wait is too long for me to 3-D print my design. On top of this my accelerated virtulization I had been using for VM's has been screwing with my CAD software. So for now, I had to create the finished project on Google Sketchup which I had very little experience with before. Also this was my first time editing STL files on my own. All in all, I learned about 3-d printing concepts, more importantly its weaknesses and restraints.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

I want to slowly create some kind of bridge between my two loves of dance and engineering. I feel like today I starting building one of the many pillars to the bridge.

What I learned

I learned proper formatting for STL files and how to export from Google Sketchup.

What's next for Tutting Helper

Tutting helper should have mini servos attached on that can flip out panels on beat command by "listening for beats.

Built With

• google-sketchup
• openscad