Pulling with servo's is easy.  Pushing requires planning, thicker stock, etc...

The new design requires upward force on the center to deploy the petals.  That means I'm pushing at that point.  That sucks.

When I was pulling, I was actually planning on using the wires feeding my Dotstar modules to also animate the rose.

I'm trying to think of how to invert this logic, perhaps making the center static and pulling on the outer rod.  Or perhaps making the petal mount itself the pulling bit, and a static central shaft.  I'm undecided.  Time to decide..