The Flower mechanism...

The biggest problem we encountered in sketch 2 was finding a mechanism to electronically open and close a flower. Greg suggested that we rethink the motion and aesthetics of the flower. During our research for sketch 2, we came across a Miura ori fold structure introduced by Diana Eng in one of her blog videos (http://fairytalefashion.org/episode.php?id=4). This was a fold structure that is inspired and found from nature, in how leaf folds were constructed and are called deployable structures. For the final project, i was determined to find the template for the fold structure. Luckily, the University of Cambridge posted a pdf of the fold template:
http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/~sdg/dstruct/wrapping.html

Miura ori paper prototype on a servo motor with mounting device by Andrew.