Origami camera!

[source]

Curved creases

Folding paper along curved lines, can create 3D objects made of paper.

Examples:
- "Fascinating and elegant shapes may be folded from a single planar sheet of material without stretching, tearing or cutting, if one incorporates curved folds into the design." [source]


- "Simple Curved Fold" [source]


- A pattern to print and fold a curved container [source]

- Nice, artistic folded paper [source]

Napier's Bones (or Rods)

- Build your own paper calculator! [instructions]


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This is a black and white image of a set of Napier's bones abacus cards arranged vertically against a black background. The 10 numbers labeled on each card, from left to right, are "1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0". [source]

- NAPIER'S Bones, held in palm of hand. Consisting of ten rods plus two extras, representing squares and cubes [source]

- Mechanical version of Napier's Bones
[source]

Alexander Calder - Hanging interaction

Colourful, exploratory, mobile, low-tech, installations-sculptures disclosing a narrative in time and space.

Apollo and Daphne-interactive sculpture

Apollo and Daphne, by Baroque Italian sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini.
An interactive low-tech installation.

The composition invites the viewer to move around the sculpture, to be told the story of the transformation of Daphne into a bay laurel tree, through a spacial-temporal narrative sequence.

http://www.galleriaborghese.it/borghese/en/edafne.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3RSRrUL1Os&feature=related

The LEGO Technic Idea Book: Simple Machines

''The LEGO Technic Idea Book: Simple Machines. This the first in a three-book series on using the LEGO Technic building sets to learn about and create mechanisms and machines.''
[book]

3D printers and paper automata

See here.

Tangible interfaces, paper and more.

Index of Tangible Interfaces and Graspable Interfaces [from: here]

Paper++ "... research has shown that the persistence of paper is not merely a result of outdated work practices, rather, paper has 'affordances' which support collaboration and interaction in ways that the most advanced digital technologies cannot rival. In Paper++ we aim to exploit these properties whilst enriching paper with capabilities that can make it an effective resource for interacting with electronic media." [from: here]

Things that Hover: Interaction with Tiny Battery-less Robots on Desktop [from: article]

Wendy E. Mackay has many papers in this area:
- Exploring sustainable design with reusable paper [here]
- Musink: composing music through augmented drawing [here]

Thinkering studio

Marble Machines - activity


Motions and Mechanisms

Origami, math and computation

History of Curved Origami Sculpture

[from: here]

Curved folding

[from: here]

"It’s a very simple pattern, using a series of straight and curved folds. Very neat."

[from: here]

Curved folds are use in packaging:
[source]


And something about the math angle here: Mathematics of paper folding

Artistic origami: here.

Other, non-origami, ways to build 3D objects with paper:
- ichinogami (here)
- paper automata (here)

A modular, marble machine with reusable parts.

[source]

[source]

A marble machine made of paper! [video]
Imagine using this idea to build a mechanical paper computing device, inspired by Babbage's analytical engine .


More marble machines here, here.

Portable DIY camera obscura

[source]

[source]
By: THOMAS SHERATON (1751 - 1806)

The expressive power of low-tech, timeless technologies

Contemporary sculptures made through paper and scissors:
http://www.petercallesen.com/

Old-times wearable computing

[from: here]