05 Aug

This past week I have been working on physically creating auxetic cell array dicussed in my past blog post. To manufacture these cell arrangments I decided to use the following materials: cardstock, Polyethylene terephthalate (PET), and Polyeurethane rubber. (Images present the materials in that o...

29 Jul

Using the interactice roco compiler I was able to design a canoe of the following dimensions: boat.depth: 20.00 mm boat.length: 100.00 mm boat.width: 50.00 mm bow.point: 50.00 mm seats: 1 stern.point: 50.00 The goal of this was to design a boat which could then be possibly used with the grassho...

29 Jul

Unit cells were presented last week in the form of a table. As previoulsly described, auxetic cells can be repeated and connected to one another to form repeating patterns which can then be actuated to form different kinds of curved surfaces. The goal of this week was to make use of the unit cells a...

22 Jul

This week I have been reading up on literature regarding auxetic unit cells. This week I decided to rechange my focus to looking at different unit cells because after last week when I made the auxetic structure I realized that the auxetic cells do not behave the way that is shown in a simulation. I...

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