Comments for Oribotics - the art/science of robotic origami

Comment on Computational Origami links by Eric Gjerde

Eric Gjerde — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 17:28:05 +0000

I would also add Alex Bateman’s “Tess” program to this list; while it is tessellation-specific, it is most certainly software oriented towards paperfolding.

his homepage is here: http://www.papermosaics.co.uk .

I would also suggest the “Doodle” origami software- seems like possible abandonware, but it’s GPL so that isn’t much of an issue.

it is here: http://doodle.sourceforge.net/

I currently think ORIPA is one of the better programs out there, at least for general diagram purposes. As always, TreeMaker is a wonderful tool for it’s purpose, and is amazingly useful to people designing complex figures.

My 2 cents on the topic!

-Eric Gjerde

Comment on Almost over… by Online Wong PoKÈr Hu

Online Wong PoKÈr Hu — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 23:44:16 +0000

If you have been asked to give a speech at about the origami house project, this convention is bound to be good. Good luck with the presentation.

Comment on Prototype flower by Zhong You

Zhong You — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 17:00:26 +0000

The robotic origami flower is cool.

A similar pattern has been used to fold up a European Space Agency antenna reflector (which looked like a flower). Details can be found in “Z. You, Deployable Structures and Their Applications, PhD Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1994″

Zhong

Comment on Prototype flower by Eric Gjerde

Eric Gjerde — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 12:40:28 +0000

I’m really enjoying the development of your robotic origami flowers. Hopefully once you have this one done and put to rest, even more fanciful and stupendous creations will come to light!

Comment on Almost over… by Ray

Ray — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 14:20:58 +0000

Good luck with the presentation!

Comment on Theo Jansen by Oribotics [Expanded]

Oribotics [Expanded] — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 00:35:29 +0000

Well its Monday morning of the last week here in Tokyo. The time has really flown by. It seems so fast, and it seems like only yesterday I was sitting this same seat thinking about how to recreate the oribotics mechanism. Now I’m packing everything up to

Comment on Flexbond by Ray

Ray — Sun, 31 Jul 2005 13:36:57 +0000

Hi Matt,

I seem to remember the hinge profile
was bevelled like so..

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always time for ascii art…

Ray

Comment on Flexbond by Matt Gardiner

Matt Gardiner — Sun, 31 Jul 2005 03:49:33 +0000

That sounds like a great idea. I’d like to experiment with that. Though this tatami floored studio may not be the best place to try it out.

Ah! but a soldering iron is safe enough and it might work - I have one here.

In fact, I stopped writing just now to try it out, and it works! In that the soldering iron can be used to melt creases. I think the plastic I have is a bit too thick, so the creases have a little too much friction. That’s the great thing about fabric, it has far less friction on the folds, and less friction is better for mechanical movement. But _this technique is great_, I hadnt thought of it before, thanks.

The direction of the folds is important when melting the crease lines. I had thought the melting should be done on the concave side of the crease. However it was the opposite, as the convex side requires the largest amount of movement, and so the melt line opens like a mouth as the fold is actuated.

You can see this kind of technique realised industrially - see
Industrial Origami Cube

Comment on Flexbond by Ray

Ray — Sun, 31 Jul 2005 01:33:49 +0000

Hi Matt,
Remember those school lunchboxes with
the molded polyproplene hinges. I wonder
if you could get sheet polyproplene and
form the creases with a hot pointed bar.

Sharpen the edge of a short steel ruler
heat it electrically and make up a wooden
handle so you don’t get burnt. Then attach
to a slide mechanism so as to limit the
travel, so you don’t cut all the way
through the polyproplene.

Most model airplane hinges are also
polyproplene and they are very durable.

Ray

Comment on Theo Jansen by ray

ray — Thu, 09 Jun 2005 15:12:21 +0000

I downloaded the mpg of the beast walking,
it’s much faster than I thought….a bit
scary! brilliant engineering, I must build one.