{"id":748,"date":"2020-10-12T13:53:06","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T17:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-a20\/?p=748"},"modified":"2020-10-12T13:53:06","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T17:53:06","slug":"everything-not-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-a20\/knelson\/everything-not-working\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything (not) Working"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Wow, this was a disaster. I had planned to be nearly done for this assignment, with all the lights wired up to the sculpture; a mostly finished project. However, the nightmare that was creating a stable skeleton completely derailed my plans. With a basic wireframe made of doubled-up wire, duct tape, hot glue, and wood, I moved on to covering the sculpture with clay, trying to make a uniform, bone-white exterior. The clay had a dry-time of one day, so I had to wait to see how my creation would turn out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Everything was going well until I looked a little closer a few days later. Needless to say, I was not pleased:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Everything was cracking and falling apart. I aired my grievances to the class. Additionally, the dog skeleton had rickets: that is, the legs splayed out when it had to support its own weight, making it look as though it was squatting. Pieces of clay were falling off everywhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Desperately I sought to bind the broken bones, or support the structure somehow. The only solution was to hang it from a hook, which lessened the load on the weak legs. In my frustration, I grabbed some washi tape and began binding up the legs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eventually, this method of “mummifying” the dog became necessary to prevent further fallout, so I mummified the entire dog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then came the 3D printing. A few crystals had come out ok; surely I could set up a larger print and have it complete flawlessly, as it did before, but overnight? (A foolish thought). It failed 75% through, splitting miserably and brittlely through the centre of all the crystals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The gruesome scene.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Exhausted and, after two near-sleepless nights, I toiled on. I salvaged the crystal tips that I could, and glued together some of the less broken pieces. I stripped wires in an attempt to power my LED strips. I modified Arduino code. Finally, and late, I reached “everything working”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Admittedly, these next two photos were accomplished some days after this assignment was due, but I feel like they embody when I actually accomplished “all working”. The skeleton is completely bound and wired up, with LEDs up the spine for the crystals, and the LED tape snugly inside the ribcage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Even though it isn’t pretty quite yet, nothing cannot quite describe my satisfaction when I plugged it all in and saw it gleam. There was finally a light at the end of the tunnel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wow, this was a disaster. I had planned to be nearly done for this assignment, with all the lights wired up to the sculpture; a mostly finished project. However, the nightmare that was creating a stable skeleton completely derailed my plans. With a basic wireframe made of doubled-up wire, duct tape, hot glue, and wood,… <\/p>\n

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