Application of the subject aside, Nitinol is fun to play arround with. If you want to tinker, this book comes with a coil of Nitnol wire to use in the demos con

Application of the subject aside, Nitinol is fun to play arround with. If you want to tinker, this book comes with a coil of Nitnol wire to use in the demos contained in the book: https://www.robotshop.com/en/muscle-wires-sample-kit.html https://www.robotshop.com/en/muscle-wires-sample-kit.html In my experience, challenges of Nitinol (a.k.a. 'muscle wire') for use as a electoactive linear actuator is that if you're not careful you can over heat (or apply too much tensile load to) the wire and it will permanently deform (lose it's memory). Still, and interesting material to toy around with.