At first, I wanted to create an art piece to comment about animal cruelty so when I switch the button on the monkey will curl up to make it look like it’s jumping and swinging around. However, I made a big mistake to glue the back and the front of the monkey together with a glue gun and so when it meets heat, the glue gun melt and it’s a complete fail prototype.

Therefore, I thought of a new project and I wanted to be playful with this assignment so I created a human exercise machine. I put the flexinol on my cut-out illustration of a woman in a sit-up position. I sewed the flexinol to make a curve around the woman’s body and solder it with the copper tape. (It was really challenging to solder it for reals) I connected my switch so when I rang the bell the woman will sit up. I also used my handmade connectors to connect the circuit together.

However, I think I used the wrong resistor and it won’t successful turn on. But I tested the woman with hot air and she bends the way I wanted to. I enjoyed using flexinol a lot and I think I can make use of it in so many different ways.