Emosilla l has the goal to sensitize kids to true emotions, and is based on the goals of authentic cultural exchange in Latin America, where it’ s start, and to the rest of the world. Basic concepts of digital fabrication are introduced to students as they participate in the design of their own chair and fabricate it using the Milling machine and Laser cutter. In the next step they assemble it with a press-fit construction process and paint it. In final reflection and presentation, students can compare their projects to each other and others developed all over the world! It is an open source project since 2014 till now had a lot of transformation and improvement from the design to the size of the chair that change according of the machine available at the fab lab or change according of the cultural needed .
MDF 12mm Sheets (80×120)cm _ for each kids
MDF 3mm Sheet (80×120)cm _ one for 10 kids
SAND PAPER
BRASHES_ one for kids
WATER COLOR PAINT (1l red, 1l blue, 1l yellow, 1l white)
COLORS MARKERS
GLUE FOR WOOD
For Emosilla Circuit
LEDS (2 for each kids)
BATTERY 3 V. + BATTERY HOLDER (1 each Kid)
CONDUCTIVE TAPE
STAPLES
Welcome the kids, make some activity as (Games or talks) that makes theme more active and less shine with the tutors and others kids. (This specially happen if the kids they don' t know each other ). Introduction to digital fabrication and workshop activity
Students will be drawing in a template the emotion that they will feel more often.
The kids will get the 5 pieces of the chair, prevues lasers cut or cut by inc machine and they will press fit and assembly all the pieces of the chair.
The kids will get brush to paint, mixing the primary colours, and color up the emosilla
Each Kids, can design the same "face emotion" that draw in the template in a 2d program
All the different emotions face will be fabricate to customise the emosilla
Students will glue or stick the laser cut or vinyl cut face to the, from back of the chair.
Using hangout kids will share the finish prototype with the others kids that are doing the workshop on the some date !
If you want to had a basic electronic circuit and you have a small chair to light up!
Please take a final picture with all the participants and share to FAB LAT KIDS network!
If for you feel like change the shape of the chair and make an other use of it please share to us will be fun to see the changes, as different counties did!