Swiss designers create LED-based assembly instructions

by Darren Murph posted Nov 30th 2006 at 10:08AM

Sure, step-by-step instructions by some of the best modders we've ever seen can help you turn your Jaguar into a portable or stuff a Linux box inside an Apple monitor, but what if that newfangled computer desk just magically assembled itself as soon as you got it home? While we're not quite there just yet, a group of Swiss gurus have devised a prototype system that utilizes multiple series of LEDs that glow and fade based on user input, direction, and tasks remaining. Designed to be used on typical flat packed tables, chairs, and other forms of IKEA-derived furniture, the diodes act in "proactive fashion" and "adapt to each movement the user makes" in order to guide the assembler to screwing the right bolt in the correct location and in the appropriate order. While there are far too many specifics to get into here, be sure to hit the read leads for the full skinny, including a comparison to the often used "paper and frustration" method. [Warning: PDF links]

Read - LED furniture assembly explained
Read - LED furniture design details
[Via infosthetics]

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets

Tags: assembly, build, chair, construct, diy, flat packed, FlatPacked, furniture, hack, ikea, led, mod, swiss, switzerland, table

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jorge @ Nov 30th 2006 10:21AM

Um....yeaaah....why is the name of the pdf file perv04.pdf? I'm at work so it's a good thing I didn't save the file to my desktop.

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Matt @ Nov 30th 2006 10:37AM

HAHAHAH

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GJP303 @ Nov 30th 2006 3:35PM

Wait.... what's so funny?

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Tod E. Kurt @ Nov 30th 2006 10:22PM

I imagine it's called "perv04.pdf" because it was submitted to the http://www.pervasive2004.org/, the Pervasive Computing conference.

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