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Video Support

Paula Aguilera Jonathan Williams Edwin Cabrera

aeroMorphProgrammable Inflatable Materials

Collaborators

Jifei Ou, Melina Skouras, Nikolaos Vlavianos, Felix Heibeck, Chin-Yi Cheng, Jannik Peters

Summary

Most of the soft lithography research focuses on elaborated molding-casting process. I'm intrigued by how to make origami structure with inflatables with various cheap materials. I developed a universal bending mechanism that creates programmable shape-changing behaviors with paper, plastics and fabrics. With the rest of the team, we developed a software tool that generates this bending mechanism for a given geometry, simulates its transformation, and exports the compound geometry as digital fabrication files. A custom heat-sealing head that can be mounted on usual 3-axis CNC machines to precisely fabricate the designed transforming material is presented. We envision this technology could be used for designing interactive wearables, toys, and packaging industry.


UIST 2016 Honoroble Mention