Ginkgo

December 2023

What if plants would live without animal seed vessels, how would plants move themselves around and travel our earth.A research into converting plant movement into machine mechanical movements. 



The ginkobiloba tree is one of the oldest known trees and have ancestors of over 200 million years ago that we know of. the plant requires birds as a source of spreading seeds. how would a tree like this move and reproduce in a world where avians and mammals don’t exist?


testing with Shape memory alloy Nitinol wire︎︎︎




Before etching the copper pcb’s ︎︎︎


Stencils for applying acrylic paint over the copper pcb’s ︎︎︎

silver soldered connection pieces 62x ︎︎︎ 




Circuit drawings︎︎︎