Boat 互动玩具 by Guangpeng Yue is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award 铜奖 in 美术与艺术装置设计 Competition Category.

铜美术· 2022

Boat 互动玩具

by Guangpeng Yue

Client: LuXun Academy of Fine Arts

A' Design Award 铜奖 Winner in 美术 Category

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The Design

About Boat 互动玩具

《舟》是一件能够回应周围环境变化的互动玩具。高灵敏度的振动传感器触发其运动，因此无需机械开关，仅凭声音或手势即可将玩具启动。主传动轴上设有凹形导向轨道，凹槽内的部件依靠重力发生位移，推动玩具向前行进。其运动方式模仿节肢动物的爬行姿态，主轴即呼应了它们的脊柱结构。所有造型、传动部件与五金构件均由3D打印制成，无需组装即可形成复杂结构。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 铜奖

Boat 互动玩具是 A' Design Award 铜奖得主，这是授予以创造力、独创性和敏锐见长的杰出设计的极具声望的认可。铜奖得主是技艺娴熟、创意惊人的作品，印证了其设计师丰富的经验、想象力与机智。预计Boat 互动玩具将成为一件备受推崇、令人钦佩且被珍爱的物品，兼具显著的专业性与创新性。这件赢得 A' Design Award 铜奖的设计融入艺术、科学、设计和技术领域的最佳实践，并因注重细节而出类拔萃。Boat 互动玩具出色地满足需求，触动渴望，迷住情感，并吸引好奇心。

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: Boat is an innovative interactive toy. It provides the novelty and interesting interactive experiences to the users by interactive feedback on the perception of things around it. Boat breaks the monotonous interaction mode between products and users by increasing the impact of environmental changes on the product that greatly enriches the interest of Boat as a toy and consumers' desire to explore products.
Dimensions & Packaging: Characteristics Complex structures are divided into static mechanism and dynamic mechanism. The characteristic of dynamic integration mechanism is that it is free of assembly and can realize dynamic connection. The traditional mechanical components need to be printed individually step by step and then assemble them together. But 3D printing can save assembly steps and get the whole mechanism without assembly.
Tags: 3D printing，Functional sculpture， Innovation，Interaction， Toys
Production Technology: For Boat, in addition to sensors and motors, all modeling, transmission mechanism and hardware structure are finished by 3D printing, which perfectly fit the form of modeling and rhythm of transmission mechanism.
Design Challenge: The crankshaft shape and fitness of the product have been adjusted several times to make the whole product run smoothly.
Research: By observing the movement of arthropods, simulating the spine of arthropod as the main axis of the model, extracting the movement law of arthropods, designing the mechanism model by computer aided tools, and solid works simulation. we determined the movement regulation of the mechanism.
Inspiration: Boat offers more possibilities for products to interact between people and the environment. The product is no longer limited to mechanical switches, but can be started through language, gestures, etc.,which bring better interesting experience to users.
Project Duration: The project started in July 2021 at Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts, and be completed and produced in October 2021.
Operation Flow: Boat is inbuilt highly sensitive vibration sensor, the main shaft surface designs concave directional track. When the sensor feels the vibration, the product starts, the main drive shaft rotates, and the structure in the groove of the rotation shaft moves due to gravity, and pushing the whole forward.
Team Members: Guangpeng Yue
Weizhi Cao
Fengze Li
Hang Yin
Xi Zhu
Zixuan Meng
Jiaqi Cui
Yanlei Huang
Jiayi Zhu
Xueqiang Zhang
Xiaolong Yin
Jinsheng Zhao
Yingyi Li