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    Content by Mika Satomi and Hannah Perner-Wilson
    We support the Open Source Hardware movement. All our own designs published on this website are released under the Free Cultural Works definition
    The following institutions have funded our research and supported our work:

    Mika was a guest researcher at the Smart Textiles Design Lab, The Swedish School of Textiles

    Hannah is a former graduate student of the MIT Media Lab's High-Low Tech research group


    Hannah and Mika were both research fellows at the Distance Lab
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    Nitinol/Shape Memory Alloy

    Nitinol = nickel titanium
    Shape Memory Alloy = SMA
    also known as: smart metal, memory metal, memory alloy, muscle wire, smart alloy

    This alloy generally comes in the form of thin wires that can be baked in a certain shape at a certain temperature that it will then “remember”, and return to when current is applied.

    Projects that have used nitinol wire

    Marcelo Coehlo’s Shutters >> http://web.media.mit.edu/~marcelo/shutters/index.html

    XS Labs
    Kukkia dress >> http://www.xslabs.net/work-pages/kukkia.html
    Scorpions >> http://xslabs.net/skorpions/

    Jie Qi’s work with nitinol and paper >> http://hlt.media.mit.edu/?p=1448

    Greg Saul’s paper robots >> http://www.gregsaul.co.uk/lookAt/paperRobots/

    Some links

    >> http://makingfurnitureinteractive.wordpress.com/2007/10/11/muscle-wire/

    Where to buy

    Flexinol: 0.006″ High-Temp (10 m) >> http://www.robotshop.ca/dynalloy-flexinol-006-ht-actuator-wire.html
    Flexinol: 0.008″ High-Temp (5 m) >> http://www.robotshop.ca/dynalloy-flexinol-008-ht-actuator-wire.html
    Flexinol: 0.01″ High-Temp (5m) >> http://www.robotshop.ca/dynalloy-flexinol-010-ht-actuator-wire.html

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