The Maker's Lab | The Finger Players

Building for the show – Improvements and Refinements

For the months of January & February, read about how Maker Xin Feng made the final changes to the puppet after receiving feedback from jamming sessions, to get Chiam stage-ready for his live performance in Little Mournings!

Completing the Prototype and Jamming Sessions

It's finally time to put the puppet together! Read on to learn how the puppet's head, eyeballs, chest and limbs are all assembled, and the challenges that our Maker Xin Feng faced along the way. She shares more about her difficulties faced, lessons learned, and the importance of relying on others for help.

Chest Mechanisms, Wearables and Sensors

For the month of November, our Maker worked on different iterations of chest mechanisms, developed the overall structure and design of the puppet, and shared some of her work on the wearable and sensors.

Joysticks, Puppet Structures and Puppeteer’s Wearable

In October, Xin Feng continued to refine the controller for the eye mechanism, started to prototype the puppet structures and brainstormed on how to build the puppeteer’s wearable.

Developments in Control and Concepts

In this month (Sep), our Maker for The Maker's Lab, Xin Feng went on to work on how the puppeteer controls the eye mechanism. Click on link to read more!

Structural Refinements and New Explorations

Besides making further structural refinements to the eye mechanism, our selected Maker Xin Feng went on to conceptualise the second mechanism with a focus on the aspect of movement. Click on link to read more on Xin Feng's August reflection!