TY - JOUR
AU - Gollakota, Shyamnath
AB -  3D Printing Wireless Connected Objects VIKRAM IYER — , JUSTIN CHAN — , and SHYAMNATH GOLLAKOTA, University of Washington, USA Fig. 1. a) Printed Wi-Fi, the first computational method that sends data to commercial RF receivers including Wi-Fi, enabling 3D printed wireless sensors and input widgets, and b) Printed Maglink, that embeds data within objects using magnetic fields and decodes the data using magnetometers on smartphones. Our goal is to 3D print wireless sensors, input widgets and objects that can communicate with smartphones and other Wi-Fi devices, without the need for batteries or electronics. To this end, we present a novel toolkit for wireless connectivity that can be integrated with 3D digital models and fabricated using commodity desktop 3D printers and commercially available plastic filament materials. Specifically, we introduce the first computational designs that 1) send data to commercial RF receivers including Wi-Fi, enabling 3D printed wireless sensors and input widgets, and 2) embed data within objects using magnetic fields and decode the data using magnetometers on commodity smartphones. To demonstrate the potential of our techniques, we design the first fully 3D printed wireless sensors including a weight scale, flow sensor and anemometer that can transmit sensor data. 
TI - 3D printing wireless connected objects
JF - ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)
DO - 10.1145/3130800.3130822
DA - 2017-11-20
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/association-for-computing-machinery/3d-printing-wireless-connected-objects-0TaayFt8Ks
SP - 1
VL - 36
IS - 6
DP - DeepDyve
ER -