Getting Started

• This project has spawned from brainstorming for and working with Professor Christy Spackman's Sense of Belonging installation at ASU. I have also received guidance from Professor Byron Lahey and Assegid Kidane being granted their electronic lab resources.

The documentation is on a rather quirky attempt to realize a configurable, localized heating of fabrication material. Therefore, it is diverted away from conventional practice of simple making of a heater or a cooler for fabrication purposes. This is enforced by the choice of material as well—which in this case—is a sugar glass. That's right; it is a documentation on:

1. Making of edible glass,

2. Exploring the phase changes,

3. Realizing the textural and tactile transitions.

Concepts to cover:

• MEMS

• Thermodynamics specifically on

  • PTC Heating

  • Peltier effect/ Seeback effect

• Glass Crystallization

• Rheological Properties

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