Resources
Hardware
Jets and UV-cures photopolymer droplets layer by layer, combining several materials in one part.
Discharges a capacitor bank through a coil to magnetise hard-magnetic materials in a single pulse.
Six-axis collaborative robot arm with a 12.5 kg payload and 1.3 m reach.
Mixes and degasses pastes, resins, and slurries by simultaneous rotation and revolution of the container, without stirring blades. Capacity 310 g.
Loads sheet and fabric specimens along two perpendicular in-plane axes.
24.5-megapixel full-frame DSLR with 4K video, used with an assortment of prime and macro lenses.
Posts, mounts, translation stages, breadboards, and optics for building custom optical and measurement setups.
More of the lab's fabrication and testing equipment is being catalogued. Please get in touch if you would like to use or discuss any of it.
Shared facilities
The lab also has access to the shared research facilities of the Department of Aeronautics at Imperial College London:
Software
We release the code behind our papers whenever we can. Code lives on our GitHub organisations: AIM-Imperial and, from our Houston years, UH-AIM.
- 3D-Printing-Knits-release - design and analysis code for 3D-printed knitted fabrics, from our PNAS paper.
- bistable-auxetic-surface-structures - cell library and inverse-design code for bistable auxetic surface structures, from our SIGGRAPH paper.