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Origami. Why origami. Electric Origami - Just as a magician appears to create objects out of “thin air,” students will create three dimensional structures from two dimensional materials and then bring them to life to with digital electronics.
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Why origami • Electric Origami - Just as a magician appears to create objects out of “thin air,” students will create three dimensional structures from two dimensional materials and then bring them to life to with digital electronics. • Creativity and formalism, the combination of which allows us to both build on the work of others and share our contributions. • Folding instructions • 3D drawings • Electrical schematics
Origami Formalism • Folding diagrams
Origami Formalism • Folding patterns Robert Lang uses a computer program called TreeMakerto design his creations and a laser cutter to gently score the paper for quicker & easier folding.
A little origami history • Origami: "Ori" is the Japanese word for folding and "kami" is the Japanese word for paper. • It began in China in the first or second century • Japan in the sixth century • For centuries there were no written directions for folding origami • In 1797, How to Fold 1000 Cranes was published the first written set of origami instructions for folding a crane
More Recent Origami • For centuries, origami patterns had at most thirty steps; now they can have hundreds • Complex origami is also more practical • Folding techniques applied to many things • medical, electrical, optical, or nanotechnical devices, strands of DNA • Applications with fixed size and shape but needing to be packed tightly and in an orderly way • Mitsubishi commercial • David Hart
Getting started • Make a crane • Interactive instructions • YouTube • Folding diagramon the next slide • Crease pattern:
Something modular • Simple Origami Cube