This is an immensely positive product to create: it prevents plastic bags from floating out of trucks, into habitats, disrupting marine ecosystems, and requires very little net energy input to create a coin purse. Wallets are something used by essentially everyone, and this represents a way to make a unique, customized and conversation-starting-but-still-aesthetic wallet individually…
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Updated Bioplatic Lab – Fanisi, Ward, Max
Lab report – bio-materials name: Fanisi, Max, Ward e-mail: fm1581@nyu.edu , mab1312@nyu.edu , whm263@nyu.edu Material: We made biodegradable plastic with recipes that use potato starch and agar-agar powder. The outputs were materials that mimicked some of the properties of plastic. Introduction or Purpose: The purpose of this lab was to create plastic out of materials such as potato starch, corn starch…
Coin Purse Lab – Fanisi, Ward and Roba
Team: Ward, Fanisi and Roba The coin purse activity was a lesson on how to improvise and make the most of al the available plastic lab resources. It turned out to be a lot easier than anticipated because of the simple instructions and availability of all the lab tools. Evidently, it was nice to realise…
Coin Purse – Ali, Hamad, Hilina
Firstly, we gathered the plastic bags that were offered to us in the lab (Type 2 and Type 4 plastic bags) these bags are made up of polyethylene both high and low density. We cut them up in order for them to fit the criteria and sizes for the heating press. Once we cut the…
Transforming plastic bags – Pangna, Hasan, Mohammed
Lab 2 Mohammed, Pangna, Hasan In this lab our goal was to create a coin purse from plastic bags. We began with cutting uncreased/smooth rectangular pieces of plastics from the plastic bags. We had to repeat this process few times as the thickness of the pieces was not to our liking the first few times….
Lab 2: Ari, Maxim, and Kevin
In the lab on Thursday our group made a coin purse each. The handles of the bags were cut as well as the bottom to create uniform layers. Maxim used the press and faced some issues with it, so he decided to keep the paper to avoid destroying the plastic. At the beginning we assumed…
Origami Coin Purse
Print the tutorial from here: coin-purse-template.pdf Use A4 paper and do not scale. Prepare the material, clean it and remove any sticker. Cut four to six rectangles of plastic bag material, around 12cm x 30cm size. Adding more layers will create a more rigid fabric, you should decide how many layers you will use according…
Lab Report: Potato Starch & Gelatin (Ali, Hamad, Hilina, Hassan)
Lab report – Bio-materials Name: Ali Al Dhanhani, Hamad Bin Fahad, Hilina Bayew, Hassan AbuHaliga e-mail: aha377@nyu.edu, hbf245@nyu.edu, hb1741@nyu.edu Material: Potato Starch Introduction or Purpose: This lab aims to create a cheaper, more available plastic alternative. We incorporated Potato starch and Gelatin respectively as the main ingredient of the new plastic. This experiment deals…
Lab by Ari, Kevin, and Hannah
Lab report – bio-materials name: Ari Almansoori, Kevin Fernando Quiros Canales, Hannah Camille Greene e-mail: aa7400@nyu.edu,kqc206@nyu.edu, hcg256@nyu.edu Material : The material made in the lab was bioplastic. Bioplastics are materials made of renewable biomass, such as vegetable fats and oils, corn starch, straw, woodchips, sawdust, and recovered food waste. Bioplastic can be produced using…
Lab by Fanisi, Max, and Ward
Lab report – bio-materials name: Fanisi, Max, Ward e-mail: fm1581@nyu.edu , mab1312@nyu.edu , whm263@nyu.edu Material: We made biodegradable plastic with recipes that use potato starch and agar-agar powder. The outputs were materials that mimicked some of the properties of plastic. Introduction or Purpose: The purpose of this lab was to create plastic out of…
Lab Report – Day 4
Lab Report – Bio-Materials Names: Roba, Pangna, Mohammed E-mails: rgo227@nyu.edu, ps3471@nyu.edu, maj596@nyu.edu Part 1: Gelatin Material: Gelatin Introduction In this lab, we will be attempting to create bioplastics from two different materials. In the first part of the lab we used gelatin as our primary material, whereas in the second part, we used agar-agar as…