{"id":209080,"date":"2025-03-18T19:11:50","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T00:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/electromechanical-building-blocks-enable-rapid-prototyping-of-large-interactive-structures"},"modified":"2025-03-18T19:11:50","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T00:11:50","slug":"electromechanical-building-blocks-enable-rapid-prototyping-of-large-interactive-structures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/electromechanical-building-blocks-enable-rapid-prototyping-of-large-interactive-structures","title":{"rendered":"Electromechanical building blocks enable rapid prototyping of large interactive structures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/electromechanical-building-blocks-enable-rapid-prototyping-of-large-interactive-structures.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Prototyping large structures with integrated electronics, like a chair that can monitor someone\u2019s sitting posture, is typically a laborious and wasteful process.<\/p>\n<p>One might need to fabricate multiple versions of the chair structure via 3D printing and laser cutting, generating a great deal of waste, before assembling the frame, grafting sensors and other fragile electronics onto it, and then wiring it up to create a working device.<\/p>\n<p>If the prototype fails, the maker will likely have no choice but to discard it and go back to the drawing board.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prototyping large structures with integrated electronics, like a chair that can monitor someone\u2019s sitting posture, is typically a laborious and wasteful process. One might need to fabricate multiple versions of the chair structure via 3D printing and laser cutting, generating a great deal of waste, before assembling the frame, grafting sensors and other fragile electronics [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,1694],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-electronics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}