solar fabric

we want our chair to be covered in solar panel material so its completely drenched in solar power.. 

finding this material is very hard as well, we have a sample coming but its not exactly what we want.

solar powered thread is also another thing we were thinking about using, though this is still in development stages and not available.

shh....

we found some cool sound insulation and we got some samples too.

this should keep noises to a minimum inside the pod

no go for lumigram

lumigram turned us down for a free sample, takes about a month to arrive anyway.

we will experiment using a reflective fabric instead.

our idea was to have the fabric light up for personal lighting but also be able to light up on the outside to call out for help.

going with super reflective fabric still sticks with the space age theme so we should be okay.

Lumigram material

we found this great material that lights up, 

approx $50 for a 6inx6in square, prototyping will prove difficult. Hopefully we can get a sample, if not then we could always improvise. 

company is Lumigram and they are based out of Italy.

space age

found our theme! space age!

testing out this reflective gold material

material and layer investigation commencing!

capsule?

came up a better design than the taco, and folds in 2 steps!

collapses to 1/3 its full scale size!

this was a quick test with thrown on fabric to see how everything looked.

fire sauce

we came up with this shape using our system of collapsable spring steel.

we joked around saying it looked like a taco

wheres the beef?