Capricate
- 5 November 2015
- conference paper
- conference paper
- Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Abstract
3D printing is widely used to physically prototype the look and feel of 3D objects. Interaction possibilities of these prototypes, however, are often limited to mechanical parts or post-assembled electronics. In this paper, we present Capricate, a fabrication pipeline that enables users to easily design and 3D print highly customized objects that feature embedded capacitive multi-touch sensing. The object is printed in a single pass using a commodity multi-material 3D printer. To enable touch input on a wide variety of 3D printable surfaces, we contribute two techniques for designing and printing embedded sensors of custom shape. The fabrication pipeline is technically validated by a series of experiments and practically validated by a set of example applications. They demonstrate the wide applicability of Capricate for interactive objects.Keywords
Funding Information
- Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (01IS12054)
- Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (B0101-15-1292)
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