Origami Flasher Solar Panels

Designing a solar panel with origami folds required some clever engineering origami is intended to work with paper but even the thinnest solar panels are several times thicker than heavy weight.

Origami flasher solar panels.

Now imagine that planet is in another solar system where the bright light of its parent star is outshining everything around it. Accommodating thickness in origami based deployable arrays journal of mechanical design 135 11 2013. For more information on the design of the solar panel see these publications. By adele peters 2.

The application of origami to solar arrays isn t new but it is a mostly undiscovered frontier. This is what new technology from nasa is trying to do capture the first images of planets outside our solar system and you can make your own model of the spacecraft using origami. Zirbel shannon a et al. This origami screen turns your windows into solar panels solgami wants to give apartment dwellers a chance to generate their own solar power without blocking your natural light.

Single degree of freedom rigidly foldable origami flashers. The working tabletop prototype of the. Lang robert j spencer magleby and larry howell.