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Ministry of Supply raises the bar again with an even sharper collar. Read up on how Skylar Tibbits’ work informed the new design.

This Living Clothing Morphs When You Sweat

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Humans have been bending electronics to our will for more than a century. Biology, on the other hand, has always been a little harder to tame. A new project from the MIT Media Lab’s Tangible Media Group called BioLogic is exploring how we might gain a little more control over the biological side of things.

The investigation, led by Lining Yao of MIT, focuses on how we…

Active Shoes

Christophe Guberan, Carlo Clopath and Skylar Tibbits from the Self-Assembly Lab at MIT look into active, self-transforming textiles for shoes, that respond to stimuli like temperature and moisture.

This project (video above) explores the possibility of producing an entire shoe by printing the upper part of a shoe and a sole on a 2D surface of fabric, which boasts translucent, lightweight and malleable properties. The Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) process is utilised in a minimal way to structure the fabric. [...]

Another project (see video here) explores the possibility of producing the upper part of a shoe by printing a specific pattern on stretched fabric. The 2D pattern evolves after cutting into a 3D form. By printing material of varied layer thicknesses onto stretched textiles we are able to create self-transforming structures that reconfigure into pre-programmed shapes. The combination of stretchable fabric and plastic offers both flexibility and stability.

“It’s really about trying to open up the possibility that all of our textiles can be active and responsive to the environment as well as the user and his or her performance,” Tibbits says. “So we don’t have to think of our world as this static, dead and cold materials. They can be highly active and it doesn’t mean that they’re any more expensive. It doesn’t mean that we have robots or sensors because we have these really subtle ways of combining material properties to make textiles active.”

3D Printing Goes 4D with Smart Memory Materials That Self-Assemble

The concept of 4D printing, a term coined by Skylar Tibbits in his 2013 Ted Talk, was developed to create materials that could be manufactured or assembled in one configuration and then alter themselves by self-assembling into a second programmable configuration. The transformation could be controlled using smart materials that alter themselves based on a pre-set series of movements that would be entirely programmable. We have already seen simple 4D objects transform themselves, but until now more complex self-assembly required multiple types of stimulus that would need to be applied at specific intervals.

However a group of researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Singapore University of Technology and Design developed a new 4D process that demonstrated the ability to create complex self-folding structures that would only need a single type of stimulus. The 4D capable components were made by combining several smart shape-memory materials that each have slightly different responses to heat. The materials were combined in such a way that when exposed to a single source of heat the material would move in precise and timed actions that allowed three-dimensional structures to self assemble without the various parts colliding.

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¿Por qué 4D Printer? Así, es como llaman al proceso de fabricación en el Self-Assembly Lab del MIT, ya que los objetos que imprimen no están acabados, ya que dependen de otro factor del tiempo, como todos, pero estos después de su fabricación se adaptan a unas necesidades, condiciones del momento, se pueden plegar, doblar, etc. Esta transformación, como la explica Skylar Tibbits director del taller Self-Assembly Lab, se realiza sin sensores,  motores o cualquier otro componente robótico, sino por las meras propiedades del material. Así, sus investigaciones se focalizan en diseñar materiales que respondan al entorno, la luz, el agua, la presión, etc. Sin necesidad de componentes externos, sin ayuda auxiliar, esto para un futuro significa reducción de elementos, reducción de constes, disminución deshechos >> eficiencia mediante >>  soluciones interactivas, que se adaptan.

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¿Podrían los edificios un día construir ellos mismos?

Suena increíble, pero es lo que Skylar Tibbits, director de SelfAssembli Lab en el MIT, junto con Arthur Olson, del Instituto de Investigación Scripps, estudian. Es decir, cuales son los componentes básicos para un ensamblaje molecular, para llevarlo a todas las escalas,  tecnologías de auto-ensamblaje en la construcción. El ejemplo:

Un frasco de vidrio único en su contenido, comprendido de 4 a 12 piezas de color rojo, negro o blanco. Cuando se agita, las partes se encuentran y se auto-ensamblan en varias estructuras moleculares. Los frascos contienen una etiqueta personalizada que identifica el tipo de la estructura molecular y los ingredientes para el auto-ensamblaje éxito. Aplicaciones futuras:

Autoensamblaje programable ha sido ampliamente estudiado a nivel molecular desde hace algún tiempo. Sin embargo, las primeras aplicaciones a gran escala se han llevado a cabo en ambientes extremos, de gravedad casi cero o flotabilidad neutra, donde la aplicación de energía puede provocar un aumento de la interacción. Como nos sugieren sus investgadores, vamos a imaginar, que se utiliza una ola submarina para activar el auto-ensamblaje de estructuras de varios pisos, o que los componentes se dejan caer desde gran altura para desplegar las estructuras y que queden totalmente levantadas, y así generar estructuras espaciales, modulares  e incluso transformables.

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