{"id":8,"date":"2018-01-18T12:23:26","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T19:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cuddlebits18\/?p=8"},"modified":"2018-04-05T10:16:37","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T17:16:37","slug":"early-ear-prototyping-week-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cuddlebits18\/2018\/01\/18\/early-ear-prototyping-week-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Ear Prototyping (Sean, Week 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cuddlebits18\/files\/2018\/01\/IMG_0919-e1516302292918-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cuddlebits18\/files\/2018\/01\/IMG_0919-e1516302292918-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cuddlebits18\/files\/2018\/01\/IMG_0919-e1516302292918-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cuddlebits18\/files\/2018\/01\/IMG_0919-e1516302292918-624x832.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cuddlebits18\/files\/2018\/01\/IMG_0918-e1516302281304-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cuddlebits18\/files\/2018\/01\/IMG_0918-e1516302281304-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cuddlebits18\/files\/2018\/01\/IMG_0918-e1516302281304-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cuddlebits18\/files\/2018\/01\/IMG_0918-e1516302281304-624x832.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For my first Cuddlebit prototype, I&#8217;ve decided to build a model that will allow me to experiment with ears, since they are a frequently used communication tool in mammal species, but not often considered in interactions with humans. I started by making a frame with a profile that I felt would be able to model both the entire body of a small animal (rabbit) and the head of a larger animal (dog) depending on where ears are attached to it. Right now I have rabbit ears that are attached to the frame by a spring, which allows for relatively free movement controlled by a string attached to the tip of the ear. Currently, the ears can be pulled in any direction, but lack rotational control, which will be the next thing I work on.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also started trying to create other types of ears, in particular a model similar to a German Shepard&#8217;s upright and slightly folded ear. So far, I&#8217;ve been unable to create a model that is able to fold when back in the same way as the dog&#8217;s ears. The folding motion of rabbit like ears is less mechanically complex than in a German Shepard&#8217;s ears, so I plan to move forward with the rabbit like ears for now. Ideally the final model will be capable of accommodating all sorts of ear shapes in the future, so I may have time in the future to come back to this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For my first Cuddlebit prototype, I&#8217;ve decided to build a model that will allow me to experiment with ears, since they are a frequently used communication tool in mammal species, but not often considered in interactions with humans. I started by making a frame with a profile that I felt would be able to model [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31093,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[826416],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ears"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cuddlebits18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cuddlebits18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cuddlebits18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cuddlebits18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31093"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cuddlebits18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cuddlebits18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cuddlebits18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions\/134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cuddlebits18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cuddlebits18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cuddlebits18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}