Treeple

Treehousehack

AR

Augmented reality and capturing of the trees

Scanning

Kids scanning trees

Virtual environment

Reality captured and automation of process using Unity

AR tree house

Creating the tree house with treeple app

Lesson

Kids learning about deflection

Tree house structure

Built tree house

Treeple

Scanning

Virtual environment

AR tree house

Lesson

Tree house structure

Hack AEC 2020

Objectives & Goals

Learn more about our hack at the Github Wiki for the project - https://github.com/youngbrett/TreehouseHack/wiki

Technology

Our team leveraged consumer technology for our hack.

App Demo Video

Hack AEC 2020 Images & Media

All

Software & Algorithms

Augmented Reality

Tree House Prototypes

Tree Houses!

How to find a tree using AR

Cylinder Fitting on Reality Capture Data

Suai used a cylinder fitting algorithm to process data from the mobile device.

Processing captured data with Unity

Point cloud testing

Researching for best input file format to obtain the most accurate data from point clouds

Cylinder fitting

OpenCV

Usage of open CV and cloudcompare to review point cloud data

Research

Scripting

Luke developed scripts to test and see what could be the approach to detect the trees

Developing with Unity

The beggining

Brett tested many different prototypes to come to the best resolution using Unity and specific parameters to obtain the treehouse

Forest in Unity

Extension

An extendable possibility of the App to create many tree houses in the forest

Railings

Safety third

The first prototype shows up in Unity now we see a possible structure to deploy our tree houses for kids

Processing

Point clouds

Processing point clouds in different platforms

Mixed reality

Laser scanning/AR

Testing with Unity and visualizing the possible tree house

App in Android

Testing the app

Testing the app with our mobiles to detect the tree

Forest in Unity

Triangulation branch in 3, 2, 1

Triangulating tree houses

AR development

Augmented reality

Scan your surroundings to see how your treehouse can be configured

Tree-go

Capturing data

The app is ready to go and capture trees, recognizing cylinder shape geometry

capturing more data

Gather three trees

Capturing the environment with your phone, computing processes as you scan

Connecting the dots

AR-Sketch

Process of how to build the app. the possibilities and how to organize the team

Notes

First AR steps

Gather of notes and brainstorming to develop the AR functionality

Virtual construction

AR treehouse

Model is created over the scanned environment, we have the necessary data to start building

Prototype to Understand Details

Deck & Rail Prototypes

Jake & Eric made connection prototypes in a garage in Alameda, California.

Jul 19

Sketching structure

Sketching to automate the process of the creation of the tree houses

Unions

Testing connections

Bringing the the real the ideas that have been sketch to test

Inspection and auditing services

Inspector on site

We all have our jobs to do!

Details

Connections

Details and connections to put our tree house together

Diving into tree houses

Researching

Researched of other tree house also some fun and leisure while we are at it

Materials

Time to build

Collecting materials to build our tree houses

Classes

Creating decks

Now we build the decks and teach kids about usage of toosl and the process of building

Classes

Putting things together

Putting the tree house together

Classes

Deflection

As we build and teach the kids about deflection and the physics behind construction

Structure

Brought into reality

Building the platform

Deck in the woods

Beams and trees

One of the many possibilities to build your own tree house

Almost ready

Preparation

Testing and building the decks and railings with the kids

Our project generated the most amazing statistic!

Metrics are a form of measurement and usually measure something important. This project made us consider some of these metrics and one EXCEPTIONAL example was clearly amazing.

For the prototype tree house, we only went to Home Depot TWO times. This is amazing. Most home projects require up to FORTY trips. And ONE of these trips was for zip line parts, which was a client-drive design change.

Official T-Shirt

July, 23

Things that happened that won't be in the presentation Out Takes

July

Official T-Shirt

We hope it doesn't become ironic

Hack My Tree House - Teaser Video

The video that started with a song.