Hello again everyone! I thought the biggest challenge was going to be figuring out how the motor would spin the paper without spinning the light, and then I walked by lego club in Foisie by accident. They gave me these NXT motors with a hole in them! How cool is that?! (see the image) I’m…
Casey Gosselin – Failure
The past week has been a little different from what i imagined. I got all my materials ordered but some things have been backed up due to slow shipping. I’ve also been waiting on hearing back from the I&E department on their project funding. Due to this, I haven’t purchased any acrylic yet. Instead, I…
Failure, Recalibration & Iteration – Sydney Smith
This past week I’ve had some failure and some success! I will start with the success. On Saturday I went to a stained glass workshop where I learned the ins and outs of stained glass as well as the tools I will need. I created a beautiful fall leaf, and I am so proud with…
Failure, Recalibration, Iteration – Amanda Smith
This week, I mainly got to mess around with the wire sculpting. I’ve tried a few different things, and I realized that with the size of the solenoid I would be using it probably isn’t feasible to have the pump system setup inside the sculpture, I will just have it added onto the side but…
Adam Murrison – Recalibration Stage
This past week, I have made many decisions for this project to move forward with. To start, I finally decided which GIF/set of images I would be using for the Lithophane zoetrope. I was originally having a hard time deciding what subject I wanted to portray, but ended up going with “The Horse in Motion.”…
Maquette – Sydney Smith
For my maquette, I decided to just draw it out on paper. I was originally going to cut out pieces of colored paper and glue them on in a stained glass fashion, but I didn’t want to spend $4 on paper that I would only need a few sheets of, so this was the most…
Darius Luo – Maquette
Model Let’s first get the thing everyone is thinking out of the way: This might be the ugliest thing you’ve ever laid your eyes on. And, yes, I agree. I decided to move forward with my Shadows Behind Climate Change concept as it was the concept I was most interested in and most excited about…
David Mahany – Maquette
I was hoping to get some of my materials in time to have something more physical for the maquette, but they only just arrived about 20 minutes before class. Instead, the bulk of my maquette is in the form of a more detailed CAD model. I plan to 3D print and laser cut the pieces…
Dominick Timpanaro – Maquette
I’m continuing to develop a finalized idea, the plan right now is to have the sign/sculpture to appear to be moving. The theme of the piece is based off of pirates flags. I’m still trying to learn techniques that will allow me to bring my idea to life. It’s going to be large enough to…
Matt Johannesen – Maquette
For the maquette of my light box concept, I wanted to have a physical mockup demonstrating at least a couple moving parts, and reorderable layers held together by magnets. I didn’t have time to get enough wood for a laser-cut version, so I cut up index cards by hand to make some layers. Below are…
Slater’s Maquette
I couldn’t get acrylic or LEDs in time to include them in my maquette, so I worked on the CAD model and did a first pass of clean up on the layers to be engraved. I learned a lot from this, most importantly that my original plan to light all the layers at once will…
Tarang’s Maquette
This isn’t a very detailed maquette sadly, in part because I was struggling with the patterns I could have. I will definitely need to do more work on this to get more interesting patterns. The maquette shows that: The resolution should be adequate. I can create interlocking patterns with rotating paper. I still need to…