
Luisa Pereira and Manuela Donoso collaborated on this musical instrument made of elastics and light. On the first version they used regular elastics coated with conductive ink and on the final version opted for stretch ...
stretch sensor synthesizer
Circuits, Conductive Materials, Polymers, Textiles

In this video Becky Stern from Adafruit shows how to make a simple circuit on a transparent sheet of plastic coated with indium tin ...
transparent circuit boards
Circuits, Conductive Materials, Polymers, Techniques

Heart On Your Sleeve from Scott Garner on Vimeo.
Endlighten is an acrylic sheet infused with colorless light diffusing particles. While regular acrylic only diffuses light around the edges, ...
light diffusing acrylic
Materials 101, Polymers

Shape memory polymer strips (image by Inventables)
Heat Reactive Materials
Heat reactive materials change state, shape and/or color when exposed to temperatures above ambient. Naturally, many materials change state, ...
heat reactive polymers
Materials 101, Polymers

Empa's EAP propelled airship with Dielectric Elastomer (DE) actuators as ...
EAP propelled airship
Polymers

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UV reactive materials, which initially have an off-white appearance, change to bright colors when ...
UV reactive materials
Materials 101, Polymers, Textiles

Here's an introductory video about polymorph-
How to bend sheets of polymorph-
How to add colour to ...
a few videos about polymorph..
Polymers, Techniques

The worldwide first EAP propelled airship was made at Empa in collaboration with aeroix GmbH and the Technical University of Berlin. This lighter-than-air vehicle with 8 m in length consists of a slightly pressurized ...