Hacks

This page contains step-by-step instructions, downloadable files, assembly guides and recipes to use the HaptiColor protocol as we do. You are welcome to use them as they are – or build upon them to apply them to your own workflow or practice.

Hand

  • Haptic intervention
  • Tool making

Medium

  • Direct printing
  • Discharge printing
  • Mordant printing

Tool

  • Brush
  • Reservoir
  • Stamp

Tool holder

  • Electronic
  • Revolving
  • Rotating
  • Static

Machine

  • AxiDraw
  • Shopbot

Code

  • Grasshopper for AxiDraw
  • Grasshopper for Shopbot

Mordant printing solutions

aluminium & ferrous solution gradients

Blackwork

ferrous mordant printing

Interactive tool holder

Sensorial input to brush motion

Grasshopper for AxiDraw

Grasshopper for Shopbot

Hollow parametric tool

Bridging the brush and pump system

Electronic tool holder

Swinging & revolving (first tool holder iteration)

Interactive input devices

Exploring ways to influence the printing process

Modular interactive input system

Interactively controlled input

Dye and motion output system

Interactively controlled ink flow and brush motion

Static Tool Holder

Kant twist clamp with adjustable angle

Interchangeable base plate

Enabling quick canvas switching