Made a few changes, threw out the "ribs" and replaced them with internal supports
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Holy molded cardboard, Batman!
We started a new project today, taking an small object; magnifying and duplicating it with cardboard. There were lots to choose from, bananas, potatoes, bones, cacti, and claws. I played with the cardboard for a bit, seeing how easily it could be shaped and pealed apart and have decided the best approach is to build a frame and then "skin" it, akin to paper mache. I've sketched it out but my experimentation took most of the allotted time so I'll begin work on it soon. 
sketches of each segment of the arm, upper/middle/claw and how I might frame them (subject to change)
Our second task for the day was to find different 5"x5" compositions in randomly placed dots. There were a few sized dots to play with (I didn't know they made 2" hole punches) Afterwords we arranged groups of them into what ones had the most depth/flatness, then we made a "pretty" one.
Monday, January 24, 2011
Brick of Despair
Your challenge if you choose to accept it, elevate a cinderblock off the ground as high as possible using newspaper and glue.
With no reference to making a ground-up structure I set off to suspend the mini-block. My first though was to make a loop, but that would involve me hogging the brick all day and having to glue and hold the already suspended brick. The second design was a section of paper folded long ways into a 1 inch strip, sandwiched between two sections folded shortways into 3 inch-ish rectangles. I cut a small rectangle hole in each end and folded the whole thing in half. I made a "pin" to thread through the holes by tightly rolling a few sheets together and folding it in half. Upon testing it turned out the paper wasn't long enough to allow me to hang the block and still get the pin in. Sooo...I slid the 3 inch parts further down so the whole thing resembled nunchucks but when i tested again, the "chain" part pulled away from the others under the weight. A quick fix to the design, I threw out the 3 individual parts, kept the pin and just used one long 2 1/2 inch wide band with the holes.
Sucess!
With no reference to making a ground-up structure I set off to suspend the mini-block. My first though was to make a loop, but that would involve me hogging the brick all day and having to glue and hold the already suspended brick. The second design was a section of paper folded long ways into a 1 inch strip, sandwiched between two sections folded shortways into 3 inch-ish rectangles. I cut a small rectangle hole in each end and folded the whole thing in half. I made a "pin" to thread through the holes by tightly rolling a few sheets together and folding it in half. Upon testing it turned out the paper wasn't long enough to allow me to hang the block and still get the pin in. Sooo...I slid the 3 inch parts further down so the whole thing resembled nunchucks but when i tested again, the "chain" part pulled away from the others under the weight. A quick fix to the design, I threw out the 3 individual parts, kept the pin and just used one long 2 1/2 inch wide band with the holes.
Sucess!
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