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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

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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

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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

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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

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

EAP propelled airship

Polymers

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[caption id="attachment_4576" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="photochromic pigments from mindsets"][/caption] UV reactive materials, which initially have an off-white appearance, change to bright colors when ...

UV reactive materials

Materials 101, Polymers, Textiles

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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

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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 ...

featured video :: EAP-Blimp

Polymers

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bionic yarn is a 'new fabric made of recycled plastic bottles' (PET). I'm loving the great 'process' section on the website, explaining the extrusion process and how the fibers are spun together to make the ...

bionicyarn

Polymers, Textiles