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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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    Moving Fabric Petals

    Using nitinol wire (shape memory alloy) to make petal-shaped pieces of paper and fabric bend, fold, twitch and move.

    Nitinol, thread, fabric:

    Nitinol, thread, tracing paper:

    Nitinol, thread, printer paper (using Jie Qi’s wing pattern):

    3 Comments so far

    1. heather on April 10th, 2012

      Could you please tell me where you purchased this nitinol and if you use oxide or oxide free? Thanks.

    2. aaaaaaa on August 14th, 2012

      yeah!

    3. James on May 22nd, 2013

      I saw this on a Slideshare® demo as a Final Project at some Highly inaccessible school some time ago, and I had some intruiging ideas that I would (have) liked to have made, and with no explanation of how it worked… I was forced to wait until I found (sought out) your Page right now!
      Thankfully I found you.
      I cannot thank you enough for Giving Me WHAT I WANT!!

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