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I agree. I'm an architecture student, and recently took a grad seminar at ___________ which focused on the overlap between digital fabrication and material science. We used a _________ printer which could print over 20 different materials, material blends, and elastomers. Essentially, you could print stuff which was stretchy or bendy, or stuff that had a gradient from stiff to very flexible. This culminated in the production of a modular wall membrane hooked up to an arduino and a mic, which would deform relative to whatever acoustic conditions it was picking up - the idea was that you could have this mutable surface condition that could be configured in different ways. Unfortunately, as well as being outrageously expensive, the prototype materials weren't very durable. The $100-a-pop modules were breaking all over the place. Here's a picture of the little prototype we made -
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