Like.... you charge it with electricity and it will stiffen or curl or something. Anyone know what I'm talking about? I'm trying to find more info about it but I have no idea what queries to search for.
EDIT: muscle wire
I want to make a bunch of flowers that open and close (using the curling fabric). Then I want to attach a ton of them to a dress. I would have different sections of flowers react to different pitches of sound so when there's music it's like an orchestra of flowers on a dress. I thought that would be cool. What do you guys think?
Well, I know of materials that react like that. One of my friends is working on a research pannel for using special plastics that move (curl/contract etc.) when a current is applied to them.
I want to make a bunch of flowers that open and close. Then I want to attach a ton of them to a dress. I would have different sections of flowers react to different pitches of sound so when there's music it's like an orchestra of flowers on a dress. I thought that would be cool.
I don't know about the stiffening thing but I do think an electrokinetic fabric exists somewhere, and I will find it and make my garden orchestra dress and save the world!!!!!!
yeah batmans cape is a fabric that stiffens when charged. i figured it was pure science fiction. how about some of that crazy magnetic polymer shit that forms semi solid spikes and crap? that any use to you? it looks fun.
Apparently that crab-thing above weighs several tons, and can be moved by 1 person. His inventions may one day replace wheels (they are way more efficent)
I'm getting ridiculously excited about this. I'm imaging like, a bunch of large flowers at the bottom then some medium sized ones and then smaller ones trickling up to the bodice, which would be a wrappy sort of thing over one boob, and then a huge flower with a bunch of little ones over the other. The drawings look way cooler and make more sense than that. I will post them.
Cool, although I imagine this wire can't be cheap, and that logistically it is going to be difficult (figuring out the correct paths, currents, and timing, and there might be programming inolved?)
The best part is the programming on this is fairly trivial.... the hard part is learning how to sew a dress and making a billion of those flowers. And I can do it on a leafboard [hahaha sorry for plugging my company, but that's why I was thinking about this project in the first place]!
Krimson, the kind of neat thing is [okay, really neat], since this is a demo for our product, all of the expenses are... well expenses. Meaning I don't have to pay to make crazy shit like flower orchestra dresses.
but you know what would be cool? if it was a wedding dress and all the flowers opened while walking down the aisle and they finished when she's reached the altar.
My boyfriend just had the idea for a cool automatically retracting veil... it could scrunch up into all kinds of cool shapes and make a huge and pretty flower in your hair.
that sounds rad. if i had the power to make that dress i'd have the flowers up higher so when ppl were watching they wouldn't have to look down (unless said ppl were very little and then the flowers would be eye level).
anyhow, this idea would be great even as a bouquet. ppl would buy that.
Oct 16 '09 by
Tonteau on Oct 16 '09 at 7:21pm
