Introduction to UbiMash

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UbiMash software platform is a generic and open interoperability tool
for designers to connect any physical devices with CAD software.

UbiMash stands for Ubiquitous Mashups.

It facilitates physical devices such as the Wiimotes, cameras,
Arduino, sensors, and reacTIVision tangible interfaces as well as Web
2.0 data (such as from Twitter) to be connected to various parametric
design software, such as Rhino, Grasshopper, GenerativeComponents, and
Processing.

By utilizing UbiMash, the possibilities for form fostering have become
open-ended. One could use UbiMash to include ambient environmental
sensor data as parameters of the model for performance based design.
Another potential is for designing physical and tangible interaction
with CAD software. UbiMash can also be used to generate actuated
feedback on physical fabricated models which are linked to the digital
model in CAD.

UbiMash is a work-in-progress and has just been released as an open-
source in March 2010 preceding SmartGeometry 2010. We aim to foster an
open source community who are progressively working on a generic link
between the physical and the virtual and continually testing it to
generate useful and practical prototypes.