Playing with your Hands - Delivered on University of the Philippines Diliman Machine Design Summit

1. Playing with your
Hands
Slides prepared for:
University of the Philippines Machine Design Summit
January 23, 2016

2. Hey! I’m Mithi!
- UPD BS ECE graduate
- I write about some robotics stuff at mithi.xyz
- I facilitate robotics workshops sometimes at
Nanica.io

3. Do you play with
your hands?

4. Three simple reasons
you might want to start
playing with your
hands.. (among many)

5. What is play?

7. Stuart Brown
Psychiatrist, Pioneer
researcher on play in
“National Institute of Play”

8. “Play is just doing it for its own sake. It
doesn't have a particular purpose, and
that's what's great about play. If its
purpose is more important than the act
of doing it, it's probably not play.”

9. Reason 1: It’s fun,
maybe?

11. Why did Stuart
Brown start to
research on play?

12. Short Video - 1
(58 seconds)

13. Reason 2: So we
don’t become
murderers

14. Short Video - 2
(1 minute and 47 seconds)

15. “NASA and Boeing, before they will hire a
research and development problem solver --
even if they're summa cum laude from Harvard
or Cal Tech -- if they haven't fixed cars, haven't
done stuff with their hands early in life, played
with their hands, they can't problem-solve as
well.”

16. Reason 3: It makes
us a little bit
smarter, we might
get hired by NASA!

17. Two ways
(suggestions?) you can
play with your hands..

18. Suggestion 1: The
easier but slightly
more expensive
way.

19. Yoshihito Isogawa

22. Short Video - 3
(53 seconds)

23. Suggestion 2: The
slightly more
tedious ‘from
scratch’ way.

24. Three of my
favorite beginner
projects!

28. Project 1: The
Trinket Rover!

35. Short Video - 4
(22 seconds)

36. Project 2: Bob the
Biped!

47. Short Video - 5
(35 seconds)

48. Project 2: Kame the
Quadruped!

51. Short Video - 6
(17 seconds)

52. Short Video - 7
(1 minute and 51 seconds)

53. facebook.com/nanicalabs

54. Take home message #1
You might be interested in playing with your
hands more. It can make you a little bit smarter
and it’s kinda fun too.

55. Take home message #2
There are many ways to start playing with your
hands right away and right now.

56. Take home message #3
Visit Nanica.IO facebook page for more more
ideas, you might want to enroll at our robot
workshops as well.

57. Thank you for listening!
http://mithi.xyz