This book presents everything you need to successfully design, build, and operate devices with Flexinol® Muscle Wires® – amazing nickel-titanium filaments that actually contract when electrically powered and lift thousands of times their own weight.
Topics include:
Basic lever action, ratchets and latches, model railroad crossing, AC power circuit, solar power circuit, paper airplane launcher, life-like butterfly, rubber tube “flexi”, proportional control, radio control interface, programmable multiple wire controller & serial port interface, PC parallel port interface and much more. Boris the six-legged motorless miniature walking machine.
