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Through this experiment, we are testing the water temperature and amount of water at which thermoplastic material needs to fully transform from 2D to a 3D model for our origami tutorial book. We are testing this aspect to see if this would be safe to create at home and what precautions are needed to make
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Topic: fabrication methods for soft materials I propose a soft sculpture that explores the technique of Direct Ink Writing. Direct Ink writing is a method of 3D printing that is useful for multi-material prints and suitable for fabricating composites. This method can be used to embed thermochromic inks (color change from temperature change) into materials.
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I would like to construct a dynamic 3D/4D printed sculpture that responds to heat and touch. I want to construct it with multiple pieces and steps so different sections of the sculpture respond to different actions. I want to minimize sensors and actuators, and work on engineering the material to do all the moving on
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Anouk Wipprect- Spider Dress I think the artist wanted to make a statement about body language and how it can make us feel, and how we react differently from it. It is also a tangible expression of boundaries. Technology: Proximity Sensors N. Shrivastava, R. Mudumbai U. Madhow, and S. Suri. 2006. Target tracking with binary
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Kukkia, XS labsfabric flower with Nitol (shape memory alloy) wires causing shape change. http://www.xslabs.net/kukkia&vilkas/photo.php?photo=kukkia3 article (pg 4-5) https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ad.488 I found this piece on XS Labs’ website, then I searched the databases for articles that discussed them, and found the above article that had a piece about using Nitol wire in fabrics.

G. Fazzini et al., “Print On Air: FDM 3D Printing Without Supports,” 2019 II Workshop on Metrology for Industry 4.0 and IoT (MetroInd4.0&IoT), Naples, Italy, 2019, pp. 350-354, doi: 10.1109/METROI4.2019.8792846. Do you have any conflict of interest in reviewing this paper? A “conflict of interest” is defined as follows: Ph.D. thesis advisor or advisee Postdoctoral
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I found this root paper in the course bibliography, then searched it by title in Web of Science. Then, I went to the Cited By section and saw 758 citations. I was most interested in the 3D printing fabrication method, so I searched the titles that cited the root for “embedded 3D printing” and found
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PneUI is an interface that allows for the design and fabrication of pneumatic soft robots using multilayered composite materials. Lining Yao, Ryuma Niiyama, Jifei Ou, Sean Follmer, Clark Della Silva, and Hiroshi Ishii. PneUI: pneumatically actuated soft composite materials for shape changing interfaces. In Proceedings of the 26th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology,
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I chose this article because I want to learn more about embedding circuits into soft actuators. BibLaTeX citation: