This time he’s made himself a Nitinol wire inchworm, which actually moves across the table when you apply a switching electrical current to it! Nitinol is a shape memory alloy which has a cool ...

But there are other methods of locomotion available. As [Jamie Matthews] demonstrates, Nitinol wires can be another way to help get things moving. Nitinol is a type of metal wire made of nickel ...

Ni and 47.3 at.% Ti was used to fabricate cubic (10×10×10 mm) Nitinol samples via L-PBF. The powder's morphology and composition were assessed using scanning electron microscopy (SEM ...