The assignments for this week are:

Level BASIC: Pneumatic wrist brace

Level Intermediate: Soft Gripper

Level Advanced : Pneumatic, digitally controlled system

First of all I downloaded the design to cut on the vynil cutter, the material I used was an urethane.

I cut the 2 mirrored pieces . Then I cut a piece of baking paper a little bit smaller than the urethane one. This will avoid the 2 urethane pieces stick to each others.

Then I did iron the 2 pieces with a protection sheet to avoid the urethane sticks to the iron.

We started with the pneumatic wrist brace, after getting all the materials

As we couldn’t get the silicon at time to make the soft gripper, I did experiment a bit more with the vinyl-inflatable. I decided to design a new form, like a worm and see how it moves as it swells