For polishing the animations after creating the first iteration we had to conduct a lot of testing which also involved playtesting with different groups of kids to get feedback from them in whether they can understand Tom’s character and if the animations help in making the shows interesting and engaging. Read more…
Visual representation of our two semesters working with Give Kids The World. We started working on the project in the Spring term of 2018 with Give Kids The World. Dustin was awarded the Creative Good Fund for the summer and we finished up our project in the fall of 2018- Read more…
We developed show content by looking at the operation and daily needs for Give Kids The World. Our initial focus was on a show to support their Good night castle experience, a nightly offering used to shut down operation at the Castle of Miracles. We ran all of Read more…
Post Install proces / Documentation Guide By Team Since returning from installation we spent our time building out this website / documenting our project and finishing up some of the administrative and seasonal activities at the Entertainment Technology Center. Some of these things include; Softs Festival Finals Final Play Read more…
Tom’s show are played through our Show Control system provided by Weigl Control. We are using a Pro Commander 2, that is our main show controller with all the shows stored on it and that communicates with the show computer. We also have a Pro I/O Analog/Servo module to control Read more…
One of the major problems that we had with TomFoolery last semester was that if he was stopped for some reason while an animation was running, he would snap to his centre idle position when the next animation started. This could occur if the staff controlling the touch screen were Read more…
At the start of this semester, Rajat, our new programmer and experience designer was handed over the implementation of the user interface. As was mentioned earlier, Dustin was endowed the Creative Good Fund and was able to playtest the existing user interface with the entertainment staff at Give Kids the Read more…
Last semester we built the first iteration of Toms electrical system, which was built so as to be as safe and robust as possible. But also to be as easy to use as possible. Because there is no manual on how to design an electrical system for an animatronic Read more…
We discovered during testing in the Spring 2018 term that there were some iterations to the mechanical design that would enhance the robustness of the design and the serviceability of the Tom Foolery animatronic. The following are rough sketches of the paths we took in order to provide solutions for Read more…