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by whilenot-dev 26 days ago
I made an artwork in 2013-ish, where I attached an aluminum foil to a good DC motor. I mounted it from the ceiling with 2 stepper motors to control height and one orthogonal axis. The motor would unwind the foil by accelerating quickly in either direction (CW/CCW). By changing directions it would also create folds and stabilize the emerging shape: https://imgur.com/a/gaRKGtQ

I always imagined an additional stepper motor to cover an area like a delta 3D printer and liked to think about the difficulty in creating the 3D software, and the need to find a solution to simulate the unwinding-into-shape through some physical model.

EDIT: unwinding GIF here: https://imgur.com/a/VP3gEiv

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Imgur is not working anymore in UK :(
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Well, AIUI, Medialab AI were told they were going to be fined for tracking children, and using their personal data, if they didn't stop ... so they blocked the UK from access.

A united democratic Korea would be great though, good call.