Week 16: Wild Card Week

This week was an opportunity to try out new forms of fabrication we have not learnt covered during Fab Academy. I wanted to try soft robotics, as that class interested me the most, as it is a fabrication that can be done at home easily. During the class we learnt about different types of soft robotics, but Edu demonstrated various types of pneumatic soft robotics. The advantages I learnt were that soft robotics are advantageous as air is easy to produce, and lightweight. I learnt that in industry it is used in food manufacturing or handling fragile artifacts in industrial manufacturing. I designed a simple application of this where I will creat an air chamber in a design. These are the materials needed: Baking paper Vinyl Sheets Heat press / Iron Straw for pneumatic air pressure