Yuxuan Mei, Benjamin T. Jones, Dan Cascaval, Jennifer Mankoff, Etienne Vouga, Adriana Schulz: FabHacks: Transform Everyday Objects into Home Hacks Leveraging a Solver-aided DSL. SCF 2024: 4
Storing, organizing, and decorating are key parts of making a home nice. Buying new things for these tasks can be expensive, and reuse is better for the planet. One way to do this is with a “home hack.” This is when you use things you already have at home to solve a problem. But creating these hacks can be hard, especially if they are big, need to be nailed or screwed to the wall.
We have a system called FabHacks to help make these home hacks easier to create. It uses a new, hack-specific language we made called FabHaL to help you build these hacks. We looked at home hacks people share online and found ways to connect household items using specific methods. We also have a simple app to help you design such hacks. FabHacks, is based on a solver-aided domain-specific language (S-DSL). It leverages a physics-based solver that finds the expected physical configuration of a hack. We tested FabHacks by having people use our system, and they could easily make and try different designs.
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