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Princeton engineers unite origami and tensegrity in design breakthrough

Princeton University researchers have developed a mathematical framework linking origami folding principles with tensegrity structures, enabling the creation of irregular yet mechanically reliable ...
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Know when to fold them: the tech inspired by origami

Screams filled the laboratory – screams, thankfully, of joy. Akib Zaman, a PhD candidate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) had just made a mini chair appear, seemingly out of nowhere. He ...
Android Authority

This clever origami game gives foldable phone owners a unique way to play

Someone has created a game that takes advantage of your folding phone’s hinge. The game is an origami simulator called “Kami.” The project is free, available online, and it’s open-source, so anyone ...
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A 14-year-old won $25,000 for origami. He discovered a pattern that can hold 10,000 times its own weight, he says.

While most 14-year-olds are folding paper airplanes, Miles Wu is folding origami patterns that he believes could one day improve disaster relief. The New York City teen just won $25,000 for a research ...
MLive

Watch origami fold with no one touching it

Scientists have a discovered a way to fold origami — without physically touching it. By shining different colors of light on a sheet of Shrinky Dink plastic, researchers remotely bent it into various ...
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Foldable origami-inspired antennas for CubeSat satellites

Researchers developed and tested a deployable antenna for the 3U CubeSat OrigamiSat-2. Weighing only 64 grams and achieving a storage ratio of 265%, the antenna enables CubeSats to transmit data at ...
Albuquerque Journal

In the fold: 'Origami in the Garden' takes the Japanese art form to a greater scale

WHEN: May 13 through Nov. 1; 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Monday-Friday WHERE: Box Studio & Sculpture Garden, 3453 New Mexico 14, Cerrillos MORE INFO: Tickets are not required, but there is a suggested donation of ...