Chuck Hoberman filed a patent for his transformable geometrical designs in 1990. Soon after, kids everywhere where playing with his expanding and contracting colorful spheres. They are radial truss structures that are stable in two different positions. They are basically all around awesome.
My current team had the idea to adopt his radial truss structures to aid us in acheiving our goals of utilizing sunlight with a binary, aperature-like surface, in which one aperature receives light, while the other blocks it. To be able to utulize his gemotry, we took mesaurements and reverse engeneered it into Digital Project, then laser-cut the components. In the process of observing and recreating, we disposed of one of the parts in his sphere, and created a geomterical system that works the same way, by using only one repeated part (plus an axle). The result is pretty neat, and really fun to play with...
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