James has been writing about technology for years but has loved it since the early 90s. While his main areas of expertise are maker tools -- 3D printers, vinyl cutters, paper printers, and laser ...

We love 3D printing here, but we also love clean air, which produces a certain tension. There’s no way around the fact that printing produces various volatile organic compounds (VOCs), and that we don ...

Origami, the ancient Japanese art of paper folding, is a wonderful way to create beautiful and intricate designs. While traditional origami mainly features two-dimensional shapes, 3D origami takes ...

A 3D shape with all straight edges and flat faces is a polyhedron. Other 3D shapes with least one curved surface are not polyhedra. A 3D shape with regular polygonal faces, meeting at equal angles, is ...

Abstract: Pneumatic soft actuators are widely used in various applications. Recent years, pneumatic origami actuators were studied intensively because of the advantages of high energy efficiency, ...

How Many Godzilla Movies Are There? Godzilla appears in many films, but how many exactly comes down to which movies you want to count. In total, there are 30 live-action, Japanese-produced films ...

Abstract: This paper presents a novel approach to realize 3D-printed flexible reconfigurable antennas, along with a proof-of-concept tunable bow-tie antenna inspired from Chinese origami fan.

The first version of ORIPA was released in 2005. ORIPA was made open source in 2012, and was pushed to Github in 2013. To find out more about using the software ...

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