3A1-I11 Development of Mechatronics-System-Embedded "Tsumiki" (Building Blocks) Behavior Changing by Human Interaction : Varidation of the prototype utilizing the characteristics of various wooden materials(Research News)

Abstract

We have developed a mechatronic-system-embedded building blocks, named 'mechatro-tsumiki' that interacts with player's operations such as assembling, building, stacking, lining-up, and handling. We develop the novel 'mechatro-tsumiki' prototypes utilizing the characteristics of various wooden materials. When various vooden materials are applied for the 'mechatro-tsumiki' blocks, each block has the distinctive character according to the wooden material applied. We applied six types of wooden materials for the 'mechatro-tsumiki' blocks in this study, then we evaluated their differences based on the characteristics of the wooden materials.