HTMAA 2024 - Week 14

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This week was our wildcard week, and I had many options for what I could do. At first, my interests aligned towards origami and embroidery, as I've done both before, but I realized I did not have enough time for either.


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But I saw on the wildcard week a section for kirigami, which I had less experience in. I mean, I've done nice little pop up books but I never really got a chance to look into kirigami more.


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This example from above from an Instructables page shows the kind of kirigami I was familiar with, which could've been easy to laser cut and use, but I figured that wasn't a cool enough project for this week..


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But looking at the attached article, I found that the kirigami they were talking about would be insanely difficult for me to do.


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Not all hope was lost, though! I saw an article below that piqued my interest and decided to check it out.


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Reading through the article (https://news.mit.edu/2023/kirigami-inspired-formula-shape-shifting-materials-0601) I found something that would be cool enough to do but not too hard to do with my time constraints.


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I found that a team was investigating how to transform a shape into another shape inspired by kirigami and origami. The concepts they were talking about reminded me of a lot of topics in math and engineering.


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For one, it reminded me of the Wallace–Bolyai–Gerwien theorem, which is where any 2D shape can be cut and reassembled into another via breaking it down into triangles.


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It also reminded me of four bar linkages, which are found commonly throughout mechanical engineering./


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And the transformation of the materials reminded me of compliant mechanisms, which are becoming more commonplace in design.


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The actual process itself looked pretty difficult but they had an article published that went into how to make one.


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Click Here to Download the Adobe Illustrator File For This Project

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