Flexinol properties

Hi,

i keep paying attention about the interesting things people do with kangaroo.

im interested in simulating flexinol wires.

i found its properties here: http://www.jameco.com/Jameco/Products/ProdDS/357931.pdf

i wanted to ask someone if any of these properties can be simulate accurately with the springfromline force ?

Im planning to use flexinol to control kinetic systems like this:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzs4GM4ZjjyE8OBKGmT_VzsWVjD8...

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Permalink Reply by ian mann on March 4, 2015 at 7:37am

hi, i am also currently doing a project using flexinol (or nitinol, which ever i can get sooner). I am using firefly to upload to my arduino, and just using a slider for "move" as the simulation for the movement generated by a nitinol spring. with the right settings Im hoping it will run fine just remapping the numbers and using the same slider to activate the real nitinol wire.

one issue i am having though is updating the kangaroo model with new load points - for example, how do you create a second deformation from the original one, changing loads based on "roaming points" - similar to your video at about 4min15seconds? i am trying with "hoopsnake", but no luck so far...

any suggestions?

have a look at the file attached if you want.

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