Electrical Happaratus glove enables wood
and stone to be sculpted by hand
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: in this film filmed at the Royal School of Art, graduate Morten Grønning explains how he adapted an electric kitchen knife to make a prototype glove for carving tough resources.
Visual prototype of Morten Grønning’s Happaratus electrical power glove
Grønning’s Happaratus glove characteristics a pair of abrasive pads on its fingertips, which move back and forth in a reciprocating movement, enabling the wearer to sculpt supplies like wood or stone with their hands.
Visual prototype of Morten Grønning’s Happaratus electrical power glove
“It’s a venture that explores a new way of generating,” says Grønning, who graduated from the RCA’s Innovation Design Engineering program. “I needed to discover how we can use our hands to create straight in difficult materials.”
Early prototype of Morten Grønning’s Happaratus energy glove
To make his first prototype, Grønning took the mechanism from an electric carving knife.
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“I needed a distinct motion to power this tool and an electrical kitchen knife was extremely nicely suited to do this,” he explains. “So I ended up strapping one particular of individuals to my wrists and employing that to electrical power the instrument for the first prototypes.”
Sculptor David Neat utilizing a Happaratus prototype to carve balsa wood
To demonstrate how the instrument could be used, Grønning gave the prototype to a quantity of wood and stone sculptors to test it out. He claims the feedback was extremely good.
“The complete prototyping phase was about obtaining a way to develop a device so I could give them out and have men and women test it,” he explains. “The major suggestions was that, as you are producing a curve, you know the form through the haptic feedback. So you are understanding the shape as you make it.”
Much more refined prototype of Morten Grønning’s Happaratus energy glove
Grønning has because developed a series of more refined prototypes, which all function a pair of reciprocating sandpaper pads that are ready to sculpt components like balsa wood, sandstone and plaster.
Visual prototype of Morten Grønning’s Happaratus electrical power glove
Even so, he hopes to produce a edition of the glove with considerably tougher interchangeable blades. These would be linked to an electric motor on the back of the glove via versatile shafts along the fingers, granting the wearer complete dexterity.
Visual prototype of Morten Grønning’s Happaratus electrical power glove
“In the genuine solution, the device tips would be produced from tungsten carbide or difficult steels that could genuinely dig into components and final a truly extended time,” he explains. “We could also have tool guidelines just for sanding and surface perform. We could have some really fine and detailed ones for intricate perform.”
Visual prototype of Morten Grønning’s Happaratus energy glove
Grønning hopes that with more improvement, he’ll be able to create a significantly more tactile replacement for conventional power equipment.
“For an artisan it really is truly desirable to get as close to the material as feasible,” he says. “With this tool you can’t get any closer.”
RCA graduate Morten Grønning
This movie was filmed at the Royal University of Artwork in London. Additional video footage is courtesy of Morten Grønning.
The music employed in the movie is a track by Uk producer 800xL.
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