From the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "A Method for Building Self-folding Machines."
Or better "A Real-Life, Origami-Inspired Transformer!"
It is paper with printed with circuits and overlayed at the self-folding joints with "Shrinky Dinks".
Shrink Dinks when heated by the heating filiments in the circuits will cause a 50% contraction which pulls the paper into a fold.
Still kinda bulky with the batteries required but it is looking very promising.
AND it does actually take about four and a half minutes to an operational state. This animated GIF is time-lapsed.
NPR's report - (link)
Financial Times: (video link)
via Wave the Dave and NPR
Or better "A Real-Life, Origami-Inspired Transformer!"
It is paper with printed with circuits and overlayed at the self-folding joints with "Shrinky Dinks".
Shrink Dinks when heated by the heating filiments in the circuits will cause a 50% contraction which pulls the paper into a fold.
Still kinda bulky with the batteries required but it is looking very promising.
AND it does actually take about four and a half minutes to an operational state. This animated GIF is time-lapsed.
NPR's report - (link)
Financial Times: (video link)
via Wave the Dave and NPR
Thanks for the shout-out!
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