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Name: kirsty boyle | kirsty@openmaterials.org
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A follow up to our last post on artificial muscles.. I just found this ebook- Electroactive Polymers for Robotic Applications, Kim K.J., Tadokoro S.(Springer, 2007) The description states: Electroactive polymers (EAPs) respond to electrical stimulation with large deformations. They are dynamic actuators which have attracted attention from an interdisciplinary audience of engineers and scientists. An enabling EAP technology is [...]
Written on August 19th, 2009 at 9:44 am by kirsty
A great demo showing some Artificial Muscle - Electro Conductive Polymer from Ishii Lab, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
Written on August 15th, 2009 at 6:12 pm by kirsty
The thesis of Otto von Busch, Fashion-able. Hacktivism and engaged fashion design, is available as an online PDF. This thesis consists of a series of extensive projects which aim to explore a new designer role for fashion. It is a role that experiments with how fashion can be reverse engineered, hacked, tuned and shared among many [...]
Written on August 11th, 2009 at 12:59 pm by kirsty
2009 AAAS/Science Dance Your Ph.D. Contest It started with the purest form of scientific communication-research papers that supposedly leave little room for more than one interpretation, but was transformed into modern dance, a medium in which individual interpretation is the essence. The results are in from the Science Dance Match-Up Challenge. From 17 April and [...]
Written on July 15th, 2009 at 11:53 am by kirsty
openMaterials is happy to announce that we are now mirroring the openArtist ISO - http://openartist.openmaterials.org openArtist is a LINUX operating system for artists based on Ubuntu Hardy, but also incorporates packages from Intrepid, Jaunty, PureDyne, Debian, Mint, Rpm based distros. Many selfmade packages, also some freeware is included. It can be used as a live [...]
Written on June 17th, 2009 at 12:55 am by kirsty
Papercrete is a construction material made from waste paper, for affordable, sustainable housing. The name implies a mix of paper and concrete, hence paper-crete. Papercrete can be mixed in many ways. Paper is principally wood cellulose, which is considered a fibrous material. Cellulose is the second most abundant material on earth after rock, and is [...]
Written on August 25th, 2009 at 9:57 pm by kirsty
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