Related Project: Pushpin Computing

Tribble
Responsive Environments group

Researchers:		Prof. Joe Paradiso and Josh Lifton
Project Web site:		http://web.media.mit.edu/~lifton/Tribble/
Group Web site:		http://www.media.mit.edu/resenv/

This project consists of a dense, distributed sensor network serving as an electronic skin. The Tribble is a one-foot diameter sphere covered in a sensate skin and whiskers capable of multi-modal sensing (pressure, light, sound, and temperature) and actuation (glowing, purring, and making sounds), all of which fall under distributed, local control of many patches of electronic skin.

Plans for the Tribble include developing distributed algorithms to differentiate between petting, poking, rolling, up, down, and a variety of other actions that can be performed with the large, hairy ball. The differentiation of these actions will be expressed by means of distributed actuation of sound, vibration, and light.

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