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FabCode: visual programming environment for digital fabrication

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Harshit Agrawal,

Pradeep YammiyavarAuthors Info & Claims

IDC '14: Proceedings of the 2014 conference on Interaction design and children

Pages 353 - 356

https://doi.org/10.1145/2593968.2610490

Published: 17 June 2014 Publication History

Abstract

In this paper, we introduce FabCode, a visual programming environment using which one can create designs that can be manufactured using digital fabrication techniques like 3D printing and laser cutting. This project is primarily about making accessible and enhancing the kinds of "thinking" that the computational medium is capable of supporting and spreading. FabCode is situated in the context of design and engineering of objects, and is based on the premise that programming 3D models for personal fabrication would enable practice of computational thinking for the same. Children will learn as they work on personally meaningful projectsbuilding, describing, printing and playing with things, and debugging and discussing their processes and outcomes. It will be a childcentered, constructionist tool for FabLabs.

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Index Terms

FabCode: visual programming environment for digital fabrication
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. Context specific languages
      1. Visual languages

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IDC '14: Proceedings of the 2014 conference on Interaction design and children

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ISBN:9781450322720

DOI:10.1145/2593968

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The LEGO Foundation, DK
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University of Southern Denmark, DK
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Aarhus University, DK
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Eindhoven University of Technology, NL
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Politecnico Di Milano, IT
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Aarhus University, DK

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Dasgupta SHill BMandryk RHancock MPerry MCox A(2018)How “Wide Walls” Can Increase EngagementProceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3173574.3173935(1-11)Online publication date: 21-Apr-2018
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