Origami Flasher Solar Panels

Origami inspired solar panel could start generating renewable electricity from your window this unique origami inspired solar panel has the potential to turn windows into a source of electricity.

Origami flasher solar panels.

The working tabletop prototype of the. Now imagine that planet is in another solar system where the bright light of its parent star is outshining everything around it. One notable earlier example involved the use of an origami fold developed by astrophysicist koryo. Lang robert j spencer magleby and larry howell.

Trease and the team created an origami like fold that can transform an 82 foot 25 meter solar panel into a much more manageable 8 9 foot 2 7 m diameter. This is what new technology from nasa is trying to do capture the first images of planets outside our solar system and you can make your own model of the spacecraft using origami. For more information on the design of the solar panel see these publications. Single degree of freedom rigidly foldable origami flashers.

Zirbel shannon a et al. By adele peters 2. The application of origami to solar arrays isn t new but it is a mostly undiscovered frontier.