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Uploaded by on Mar 12, 2010

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  • Without the elastic, would the petals remain in the open position or would they slowly close a bit as the wire cooled?

  • @Maryissuper It depends on what type of muscle wire you have, but the one I used only goes one way. There are some metals that would go backa agin, but I'm not sure which ones...

  • Yep, the blue strings are elastic wire. They work pretty well, but are not optimal, and will evetually wear out unfortunately..

  • hello what kind of flexinol are do you using

    please help me im working in a proyect with arduino and flexinol but i buy the wrong size

  • @marinacora Hi, it was quite hard to figure out what wire I should use.. Generally, the require shitloads of current. This flower uses 2x2 AA batteries to work, with NiTiNol wire, straight annealed, 0.5 mm diameter. If I went for a thinner wire (less current) it wasn't strong enough to open the flower..

  • @mariehanas I bought it at Flexmet in Belgium. For some reason youtube isn't letting me post a link to their website..

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  • How are you making the petals close? Are the blue strings elastic? How are they held under tension?

  • oh thanks for the information, nice flower!

  • Wow amazing, could be fun to make it open and close depending on amount of light present :)

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