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Resinance is part of an ongoing series, exploring the potential use of smart materials in an architectural context. It was realized in March 2013 by the Master of Advanced Studies class at the Chair for CAAD. The ...

Resinance

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The Microbial Home Probe project consists of a domestic ecosystem that challenges conventional design solutions to energy, cleaning, food preservation, lighting and human waste. Our world is sending us warning signals ...

Microbial Home

projects

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Animated Textiles was a five-day workshop held at the Swedish School of Textiles at the University of Borås from Sept. 17th to 21st 2012.   Within this workshop we explored the combination of soft ...

Animated Textiles

projects

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Polyester resin is a thermosetting resin produced by a reaction between several organic acids and polyhydric alcohols. Industrially used for molding reinforced fiber and composite products, polyester resin was chosen ...

Thermochromic Plastic

tutorials

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Elastomeric Escapisms - Tom Novakovic and Nicole Larkin This project was part of a Masters of Architecture design studio in Digital Architecture from the University of Sydney, Australia. After becoming interested in ...

Electroactive Polymer Fabrication

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This tutorial is based on an instructable on bioluminescent algae and was made possible through extended conversations with Maike Lorenz of the Culture Collection of Algae at Goettingen University. ...

Bioluminescent Algae

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This tutorial is loosely based on research into soft robotics at the Whitesides Research Group, Harvard University Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology. It was made possible through an exploratory workshop initiated ...

(Phosphoresecent) Soft Robots

tutorials

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These instructions were developed with great support from the Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) who have improved and developed DSSC since the early 1990s. ...

Dye-sensitized Solar Cells

tutorials

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Prototyping Tool for Organic Architecture Recently Frank Gehry, Norman Foster and many other architects produce buildings with organic surface shapes. In their design process, it is essential to model and render the ...

SMAAD Surface

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The Smart Costumes research project explores the development of Smart Textiles and Wearable Technology for Pervasive Computing Environments. Heriot-Watt University’s Creativity Innovation and Design Theme funded the short ...

3D Thermochromic Textile Structures

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This experiment was set up following the accidental discovery of light and audio response to touch from EL during tests of reverse build EL on ephemeral materials.  The EL was printed in reverse to the normal process ...

Touch responsive electroluminescent loudspeaker

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SAMSUNG DIGITAL CAMERA
Thermochromic materials change colour reversibly or irreversibly in response to temperature change. They come in a variety of forms often as (microencapsulated slurries) and are used in wide ranging ...

Thermochromics, Temperature and Time

materials

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Bioluminescence is the visible creation of light by an organism through a biochemical reaction. It is produced by the sudden transformation of a high-energy molecule into a lower state of energy. The difference in these ...

Bioluminescence

materials

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The term aerogel was first introduced in 1932 by American scientist and chemical engineer Samuel Steven Kistler (1900 - 1975) to describe a type of gels in which their liquid component had been replaced with a gas [1]. The ...

Aerogel

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Soft Robotics is a research area that draws inspiration from invertebrates - animals (like squid, starfish or worms) that do not have internal skeletons - to develop alternatives to hard bodied robots, which consist mainly ...

Soft Robotics

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