#skylartibbits

Hi guys, it's been a while since I've blogged. Well, actually, I've never seriously blogged (sorry).

Today, I'm gonna blog about my latest obsessions, which are smart design and Skylar Tibbits. For those of you who do not know who Skylar Tibbits is, he is a trained computer scientist, architect and designer. He has a masters degree from MIT and he is currently the director of the Self-Assembly Lab at MIT. I find his works to be incredibly astounding.

Self-Assembly Lab (SAL) ?

Here's a short intro to SAL. The SAL is a interdisciplinary lab that focuses on projects surrounding 4D-printing, and self-assembling materials. What it means to be a 4D object is to have the capability to configure itself overtime, which differs from 3D-printed objects. The so-called "self-assembling" materials are 4D-printed and they are programmed such that it can change its shape by means of passive energy such as shaking, heat or current. One of the goals of SAL is to improve the world of construction through self-assembling objects. Some of the projects they're working on include self-adjusting pipes that can undulate, expand or contract, so that we can remove valves or pumps on those water pipes we use today.

I believe the lab has been around for about 5 years. I have never seen something like this before. I've been obsessing over these stuff for about 4 days.

Skylar Tibbits himself has given TED talks on the lab. Here's one of them:

Click here to visit Tibbits' official website, and here to visit SAL's official website.

Tibbits also has a Twitter account (@SkylarTibbits), and a vimeo account where he posts videos of his works. 

More on Tibbits and SAL

Here's a brief article on Tibbits and the lab, and below is the video by Fast Company. I genuinely love this video.

When I researched about SAL, I thought that self-assembling toys would be very cool. But this is much more than envisioning cool toys. This is our gate to the future. We can imagine a future that offers synthetic biological structures such as the auto-rhythmic muscles and peristaltic organs.  

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