What is an idea to bring the convenient open work space to the next higher level?

Open work spaces opened for those who say "If you buy a finished product, you should make it yourself", it is popular abroad that you have a machine tool that is difficult to own, and gradually in Japan It is beginning to be recognized. In overseas, "Maker spaceThe idea of ​​making this service further developed and making it easy to use is called "Seeing space"Creators from various fields gather and share ideasEG Conference, The inventor makes a presentation and reveals details of it.

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This is the inventor's presentation of "seeing space"Bret VictorMr.


The slide show shows the screen on which the developer is making an animation.


The space the developer is working on is not a substance world that can be touched and touched.


Developers work with spaces in small PCs.


On the other hand, to develop things that can be touched with eyes, space of a certain size is necessary.


A delicious dish is made because there is a space called a kitchen with various cooking utensils.


However, there are limits for individuals to possess tools necessary for development, production, cooking, etc. It is "maker space" that exists for those people.


The maker space is a place where people say "Let's make something by myself".


Because we have a lot of expensive machines that individuals possess difficult, we have gained popularity from the DIY love.


If it is a chair or bicycle, you can create it with maker space.


However, it is more difficult to create complex machines such as human-robotic robots.


Robots and drones, for instance, need developers to understand exactly what is going on in the machine.


For example, suppose you developed a robot that moves to that location in response to bright light.


However, if the robot actually developed does not operate normally, the developer thoroughly observes "why the robot did not respond to the light" "what happened in the robot at that time" You have to investigate.


There are occupations in the world that observe what actually happens in machines.


NASA observes and controls what is happening inside the space shuttle which is flying in outer space, always there is no abnormality.


"If there is a space that combines behaviors that observe the interior of the machine and the maker space, it will be a great benefit for engineers and creators," Victor says.


That is the new form of service called "seeing space" advocated by Victor.


The image of seeing space looks like this.


The seeing space consists of three concepts: "seeing inside", "seeing across time" (observation from the time axis), "seeing across possibilities" (observation of all possibilities).


Seeing inside is to transfer what happens inside the robot under development into data.


By displaying the transferred data on a large screen or workbench, you can streamline the work in terms of hardware and software.


Seeing across time allows you to record all motion of the robot under development, view and compare data. If an abnormal part is found with the latest data, it can compare with the past data and can investigate the cause.


Seeing what possibilities you can judge in one shot which data is tested with various settings and which setting is likely to bring out the best performance. If you think of a robot that reacts to light, you can use it to display all the test results with all the light intensity and to examine the light intensity with which the robot works best the most.


Victor's proposed seeing space is characterized by three concepts that can be done in real time. If you display the data on the display or workbench in parallel with the test, you can cut down the work time, move the room and browse the data on the PC.


Victor's is to develop a "seeing space will cost a lot of money. However, is for us to resolve the concept of" shared by all the expensive equipment "of the maker space with respect to expensive development costs. Technology There may be people say that it is impossible to realize it, but the space shuttle and 3D printers, which were thought impossible, have been realized and seeing space is not feasible "I was talking about my own perspective.