Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Toy/Tool
My first idea to try and build a village for my dinky cars has officially gone to ruins. Problem after problem has forced me to retreat from the project. I had design problems and problems trying to find the right materials. Since this was last minute I decided to come up with a more simple but effective solution. When I went into my room last night I noticed my hats all over the place, some on my t.v and others on my bed post. Then I thought of the idea of making a simple hat hanger to hold my hats in a efficient and clean way. I found a plain piece of wood that we used to make a screen for our back door and cut and shaped it into the shape I needed. Then I drilled three holes into the piece of wood. I then cut the top half circle of a coat hanger and wrapped them around each side of the wood. Making a hook come out of one side and voila...a hat holder. Obviously this was to simple and very boring so I then decided to attach a roller and a piece of wood to make it movable from side to side. Since my closet isn't huge I need to calculate each square each to fit all my stuff. I nailed in two 6 cm nails into the wall, then I laid a piece of wood on the top of it along with a rotator that I found out the back of my dad's pick-up. I attached that to the piece of wood then I attached a hook screw to it and made another hole into my hanger and voila...a move able hat hanger.
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Hanger Designs
The Materials that were used for this project are a six hang wires, black nylons, glue and tape. We tried a couple procedures which didn't seem to work. The first procedure was to take two hang wires and shape them circular. Then, we would take the circles and put them together making it 3D. Then we wanted to make a stretched triangle and place it on top of the circle, naming it "cyramid." The reason why it didnt work was because the circles kept on coming together and maked it a flat image. The second try, we decided to take a thin aluminum foil and wrap it on the inside of the cirle to keep it from coming together; which didnt work.
Finally, we decided to take one hangwire and straighten it out. Around it we put a twisted hangwire and covered it with black nylons. Then we took two shapes and combined it to make it into one. To top it off, we put a light to make it shine and also give it a dark halloween look. In some ways it resembles a bat
Made by: Joey Gendron, Jessica Reale, Joey Morabito, Emmanuelle Francoeur
Finally, we decided to take one hangwire and straighten it out. Around it we put a twisted hangwire and covered it with black nylons. Then we took two shapes and combined it to make it into one. To top it off, we put a light to make it shine and also give it a dark halloween look. In some ways it resembles a bat
Made by: Joey Gendron, Jessica Reale, Joey Morabito, Emmanuelle Francoeur
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Optimus One
We started off this project with the idea of constructing a movable car. We decided to use material's such as Styrofoam cups, a 1.5 volt motor, some imitation sheet metal, elastics, Popsicle sticks, a sponge, some pens and of course some duct tape.
We used they inside of the blue pen and attached it to the line coming out of the motor. It twirled perfectly and that was because their was no weight on the tube of the pen. We decided to use two option's to construct the wheels for our car. Our first idea was to use the bottom of the Styrofoam cups, carve them out and use them as our wheels. It was a pain to carve them into a perfect circle without the right equipment but we did the best we could. We tried out the idea and it worked decently but we new their was room for improvement. Our second idea for our wheels was to try and carve wheels out of they imitation sheet metal we had. We traced circle's on the sheet metal and attempted to carve circles out of it with a pair of scissors. We didn't have much problem cutting out the wheels out of the sheet metal, the problem was that the wheels were not even at all, since this imitation sheet metal is still hard to cut and work around, the circle came out more looking like a square.
We attached they inside of a blue pen to the motor (as explained earlier), then we attached our two different sets of wheels (Styrofoam and metal). The first pair of wheels (Styrofoam) had no traction on the desk and it seemed like the friction from both the desk and the Styrofoam didn't make the wheels move at all. The weight from the 1.5 volt motor was too heavy to weigh down the wheels and the motor simply tilted to its side. We tried our second pair of wheels ( imitation sheet metal), and the same result. The wheels didn't turn and the motor fell once again on its side. Despite both attempts at trying to make wheels, if we grab the motor and point the pen with the wheels on it in they air, the pen moves at an excessive speed but once on the desk, no result.
We then tired to pull a sponge through the blue pen and stick it in the middle of our wheels as a support. We found that the second pair of wheels (imitation sheet metal) didn't work well with what we were going with so we dropped them into the garbage. We decided to stick with the Styrofoam wheels since they provided more weight.
We simply couldn't find any support or weight for they other side of the pen to hold the motor level. After different attempts nothing came to mind and with time running out we decided that our plan was not a failure but on hold.
We then turned to a back up plan where we tied a battery to a shot glass with duct tape and turned it upside down so the bottom of the shot glass was up. We then hot glued they motor to they bottom of the shot glass. We kept they original design idea's on the motor such as the pen, sponge, Styrofoam wheels, and two broken popsicle stick's we tried to use a weights to level the motor. The purpose was to make a vibration and make our vorbrot move, which we attempted until the glue that attached the motor to the bottom of the shot glass gave up on us and detached.
Even our second idea failed, but we learned that there is no such thing as failure, only early attempts at success.
In conclusion, we learned how our design won't always turned out they way we want it to and the best we can do is learn from our mistakes.
Cheers,
Joey Gendron & Joey Morabito.
We used they inside of the blue pen and attached it to the line coming out of the motor. It twirled perfectly and that was because their was no weight on the tube of the pen. We decided to use two option's to construct the wheels for our car. Our first idea was to use the bottom of the Styrofoam cups, carve them out and use them as our wheels. It was a pain to carve them into a perfect circle without the right equipment but we did the best we could. We tried out the idea and it worked decently but we new their was room for improvement. Our second idea for our wheels was to try and carve wheels out of they imitation sheet metal we had. We traced circle's on the sheet metal and attempted to carve circles out of it with a pair of scissors. We didn't have much problem cutting out the wheels out of the sheet metal, the problem was that the wheels were not even at all, since this imitation sheet metal is still hard to cut and work around, the circle came out more looking like a square.
We attached they inside of a blue pen to the motor (as explained earlier), then we attached our two different sets of wheels (Styrofoam and metal). The first pair of wheels (Styrofoam) had no traction on the desk and it seemed like the friction from both the desk and the Styrofoam didn't make the wheels move at all. The weight from the 1.5 volt motor was too heavy to weigh down the wheels and the motor simply tilted to its side. We tried our second pair of wheels ( imitation sheet metal), and the same result. The wheels didn't turn and the motor fell once again on its side. Despite both attempts at trying to make wheels, if we grab the motor and point the pen with the wheels on it in they air, the pen moves at an excessive speed but once on the desk, no result.
We then tired to pull a sponge through the blue pen and stick it in the middle of our wheels as a support. We found that the second pair of wheels (imitation sheet metal) didn't work well with what we were going with so we dropped them into the garbage. We decided to stick with the Styrofoam wheels since they provided more weight.
We simply couldn't find any support or weight for they other side of the pen to hold the motor level. After different attempts nothing came to mind and with time running out we decided that our plan was not a failure but on hold.
We then turned to a back up plan where we tied a battery to a shot glass with duct tape and turned it upside down so the bottom of the shot glass was up. We then hot glued they motor to they bottom of the shot glass. We kept they original design idea's on the motor such as the pen, sponge, Styrofoam wheels, and two broken popsicle stick's we tried to use a weights to level the motor. The purpose was to make a vibration and make our vorbrot move, which we attempted until the glue that attached the motor to the bottom of the shot glass gave up on us and detached.
Even our second idea failed, but we learned that there is no such thing as failure, only early attempts at success.
In conclusion, we learned how our design won't always turned out they way we want it to and the best we can do is learn from our mistakes.
Cheers,
Joey Gendron & Joey Morabito.
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