Material Exploration of soft actuators as tangible interface elements. This work is in collaboration with Ozgun Kilic Afsar and Wedyan Babatain.

As part of a class called How to make (almost) anything, I experimented with physical actuation triggered by an digital interface. The circuit that controls the actuation is controlled by a web-interface.

Since the actuation is controlled through electrical current, it can be tuned very precisely.

This material-based interface can be used to for example to reveal an image.

Through mechanical constraint, the acceleration of actuation can be adjusted. In this case, it mimics the movement of a fly trap.

On an architectural scale, it can also be used as a shade.

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