GENERACION DE IDEAS

BRAINSTORMING

• -   Molinillo de carne con resistencias que calienten la cera.
• -   Pistola de silicón que se alimente con barras de cera
• -  Cera derretida que pase por tuberías de cobre con resistencias de planchas para mantener la cera en estado líquido hasta la salida por el cabezal.
• - Circuitos N555 donde con timers controláramos la salida de chorros de cera que pasarían por fundidores en tuberías.
• -   Alimentador de pistola de paintball aplicado al fundidor de una pistola de silicón, con manguera interconectándolos. 

  BRAINWRITING

  BIOMIMETICA

HEAT CREATES PRECISE SHAPES: BEES

"Geometrical investigations of honeycombs and speculations on how honeybees measure and construct the hexagons and rhombi of their cells are centuries old. Here we show that honeybees neither have to measure nor construct the highly regular structures of a honeycomb, and that the observed pattern of combs can be parsimoniously explained by wax flowing in liquid equilibrium. The structure of the combs of honeybees results from wax as a thermoplastic building medium, which softens and hardens as a result of increasing and decreasing temperatures. It flows among an array of transient, close-packed cylinders which are actually the self-heated honeybees themselves. The three apparent rhomboids forming the base of each cell do not exist but arise as optical artefacts from looking through semi-transparent combs." (Pirk et al. 2004:350)

WAX ESTERS ALLOW FOR CHANGES IN BUOYANCY: CALANOIDES ACUTUS ZOOPLANKTOM

The tiny Antarctic marine crustacean Calanoides acutus hibernates overwinter by descending to great depths. Once it reaches depths below 400 meters (one quarter mile), the cold temperatures cause a large pocket of waxy liquid within its body to transform to a dense solid, causing the organism to sink. As a buoyant substance, the waxy liquid is made up of saturated fatty acids, which are long chains of carbon atoms attached to each other by single bonds. To prepare for its descent and hibernation, the crustacean changes the waxy substance from saturated to unsaturated; that is, many of the single bonds connecting the carbon atoms to each other are converted to double bonds. This change allows the waxy compounds to fit together in a more tightly packed configuration. The increased density causes the crustacean to sink in the water column until it reaches a depth at which it is neutrally buoyant again. It can remain at the depth without additional energy input until it begins to consume the lipid when spring arrives.