Textile Inspiration: Beautiful Animated Textiles Using Small Motors
These lovely textile experiments by Meg Grant will certainly inspire you to start adding a bit of animation to your clothing.
Meg began by creating folded paper patterns (example can be found here) that she then re-created with fabric. Using a small motor, the fabric structure opens and closes.
Another wonderful experiment uses a motorized bead encased in a piece of industrial felt.
Both these experiments are quite simple and use inexpensive motors as an alternative to shape memory alloys which are often difficult to use.
Thanks Meg! You've got my imagination spinning (sorry for the bad pun!)
Tags: Soft Technologies
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Comment by meg on April 13, 2010 at 11:46pm - hey rachel, i used pager motors, sometimes called vibration motors or micro motors. they have a weight attached to the axis so that they vibrate when they spin. you can remove this weight easily by heating it (i used the gas flame from my oven) and pulling it gently with pliers at the same time. then you can solder crimping beads to the axis!
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Comment by Rachel on April 5, 2010 at 1:21pm - This is awesome, Meg. I found the additional video you mentioned. What kind of motor did you use?
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Comment by meg on April 1, 2010 at 12:21pm
- haha, if you want to see spinning, i just put one more video up of the rotating rosettes. love it that you are inspired by these! :)
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