Cilllia – 3D Printed Micro-Pillar Structures for Surface Texture, Actuation and Sensing

Published on July 8, 2016

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Looking into the Nature, hair has numerous functions such as to provide warmth, adhesion, locomotion, sensing, a sense of touch, as well as it’s well known aesthetic qualities.

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This work presents a method for 3D printing hair-like structures on both flat and curved surfaces. It allows a user to design and fabricate hair geometries that are smaller than 100 micron.

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The ability to fabricate customized hair structures enables us to create super fine surface texture; mechanical adhesion property; new passive actuators and touch sensors on a 3D printed artifact. They built a software platform to let users quickly define the hair angle, thickness, density, and height. The ability to fabricate customized hair-like structures not only expands the library of 3D-printable shapes, but also enables us to design passive actuators and swipe sensors.

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They also present several applications that show how the 3Dprinted hair can be used for designing everyday interactive objects.

Jifei Ou, Gershon Dublon, Chin-Yi Cheng, Felix Heibeck, Karl Willis, Hiroshi Ishii

MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, USA {jifei, gershon, heibeck, ishii} @media.mit.edu
MIT Architecture, Cambridge, USA chinyich@media.mit.edu
Addimation, Inc San Francisco, USA karl@karlddwillis.com

For technical detail, please reference our paper here.

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