It doesn’t “make” the flowers per se, or at least that’s not what I see in the video. The machine creates the folding pattern(s), but a human still needs to assemble the flowers. This machine—at least the one shown in the blog post submitted by the OP—appears to be one of the initial stages of an assembly line. The next stage would then fold the paper(s) according to the lines stamped by the first machine. However, since the author mentions that they often use glue and scissors, I don’t think the additional stages will be as straightforward as the machine described in this post.
This is a lovely home built automated production line.
Small production lines empowering individuals to produce small run but at scale production runs can make help support maker craft and the small scale idiosyncratic existence of things more possible in a world where competition with offshore manufacture and mass-produced soulless production and craft outcompetes and crushes local craft and garage grown tech.
Even though this isn't a fully-fledged industrial system, I like the thought they put into those aspects. Particularly, I want to make a homebrew PLC myself someday and the 24V IO board they made would be a nice starting point for that.
