How to Make Textiles Move
In the 5th E-Textile Workspace we focused on the question how to make textiles move. Previously, some ad hoc experimentation with Flexinol shape memory alloy was done, but we all agreed it would be interesting to see what we could come up with independently.
Watching the Moiré effect
This workspace session was more practically oriented, so there is not much discussion to be shared this time. Read previous E-Textile Workspace sessions.
The participants presented several samples during the session, trying to achieve movement with their textiles. In general, everybody achieved a certain degree of movement with their textiles/samples; the difficult part was to achieve movement in a subtle way and without too much noisy mechanics, in order to obtain a better/smoother effect.
Deployable Structures
Meg experimented with deployable structures. She translated geometrical patterns - designed by the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge - into textile equivalents. See the full documentation on Meg's blog.
Trained Muscle Wire
Aduen and Anouk trained a piece of muscle wire in a ceramics oven, proving that you don't have to buy pre-trained wire.
