PROPOSAL As a continued exploration of my studies in embedding magnets in silicone along with the experiment of casting silicone into a folded structure, I propose a screening device that is either manually controlled through physical interaction with the embedded magnets or electronically controlled through a sensor-based interaction. The actuation I hope to achieve is [...]
My final project is a screen made of cast silicone that has two main properties. First, it is embedded with magnetic material, and second, its form is such there are slits where the material is very thin and the slits have the ability to open into larger apertures if the adjacent slits are pulled back. [...]
I started by exploring some existing processing code on this site and decided to play around with this turtle code. It’s pretty fun to just change the rotation parameter to get different path shapes for the “turtle”, but you can also easily adjust the scale and time step (which both result in a different size [...]
All knitting done on the fine gauge machine: PART 1: Attempt 1: Botched the cast-off But the knit was pretty nice. Attempt 2: Experimenting with a different yarn, trying to find a good tension… I found that less tension (around 7) worked better for this particular yarn. I was almost successful, but dropped a stitch [...]
PROPOSAL: As a continued exploration of my studies in embedding magnets in silicone along with the experiment of casting silicone into a folded structure, I propose a screening device that is either manually controlled through physical interaction with the embedded magnets or electronically controlled through a sensor-based interaction. The actuation I hope to achieve is [...]
In studio this semester (with Yihyun), we’re working with spherical water tanks and part of our concept has been to consider packing spheres into the volume of our site. We’ve been doing “manual” sphere packing with a physical model rather than writing code, but we have been using some code to generate two dimensional diagrams [...]
Last year, I experimented with embedding small spherical magnets in an elastic fabric in order to simulate a controlled surface deformation: With this assignment, I wanted to recreate a similar effect by embedding the magnets in silicone. First I made a mold by laser cutting plexi and stacking it to get the inverse of what [...]
trained nitinol into spring form with the threads of a screw as the mold: nitinol un-sprung: nitinol sprung: diamond pleat folded structure: nitinol spring inside: after applying heat: wiring to lilypad: mosfet setup: switch: setup in progress: So far it works with a heat gun…. d
I recently lost one of my favorite mittens and the remaining mitten was crying out for attention… Lonely mitten: My hands get super cold when biking, which is why I used to turn to this pair of mittens to keep my fingers happy. But with one mitten lost and this assignment in mind, I decided [...]
MEASURING AND CALCULATING: Since the thread needs to carry at least 100mA of current to change the ink’s color and the battery is 3.7 volts, we know that the thread will need to have a resistance of 37 Ω (R = V/I). Using the multimeter to test the voltage and resistance: the voltage of the [...]