Demonstrating thermorph: Democratizing 4d printing of self-folding materials and interfaces

Y Tao, J Gu, B An, T Cheng, XA Chen… - Extended Abstracts of …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Y Tao, J Gu, B An, T Cheng, XA Chen, X Zhang, W Zhao, Y Do, T Zhang, L Yao
Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing …, 2018dl.acm.org
We demonstrate" Thermorph", a rapid prototyping system aims to print flat thermoplastic
composites and trigger them to self-fold into 3D with arbitrary bending angles. An interactive
web-based design platform is developed to allow users to input their desired 3D shape or
design 2D pattern, and see the printer printing it out automatically. Thermorph employs a
desktop FDM printer and low-cost printing filaments to make this 4D printing technique
readily accessible for researchers, hobbyists, classrooms, museums and developing …
We demonstrate "Thermorph", a rapid prototyping system aims to print flat thermoplastic composites and trigger them to self-fold into 3D with arbitrary bending angles. An interactive web-based design platform is developed to allow users to input their desired 3D shape or design 2D pattern, and see the printer printing it out automatically. Thermorph employs a desktop FDM printer and low-cost printing filaments to make this 4D printing technique readily accessible for researchers, hobbyists, classrooms, museums and developing countries.
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