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Paula Aguilera Jonathan Williams Edwin Cabrera
aeroMorphProgrammable Inflatable Materials
aeroMorph
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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.