Rig Building

So its a couple of weeks old, but this is the time lapse video from the Rig Building day I recently did as part of a team for our experience project. The brief of the project, given to us by our first outside clients the charity Building Trust International, is to create accommodation for 8 migrant workers living in Singapore in a 20m2 and 4m high area. as part of answering this brief we built a full size model of one of the components for the design. This was to check the dimensions and possibility of someone sleeping in this component, or 'pod'. Below is a time lapse video I took through out the day showing both the construction and dismantling of the rig.

From the rig, we found that our dimensions were good, if anything too generous so this allowed us to slightly change our design for the better use of the available space. Here are also some pictures taken during the process.

 

Knife Forging Part 2

So this is the second part of the creation of my knife from Denmark. If you remember the previous post the knife was very rough and dull see here. Since then I have spent a lot of time with a file and sandpaper and have now got the knife blade to a point where I am happy with both the knife's look and sharpness.

The next stage will be the most technically difficult as it is putting the handle on the metal, a process I have no idea how even to begin, so research will have to be done. But more on that later, for now bye!

Necklace

 

Ok so I was bored today so I decided I wanted to make something. So after a brief search I came across this small bit of clear acrylic I picked up at sometime in DT. After a quick bit of filing and sanding on the edges I decided I was going to make a necklace. After a first drilling attempt where the drill bit got stuck in the plastic and then broke so I had to cut that section off and refile it. I then drilled it correctly threaded a thread through it and voila! more pics below.

Virtual world to Reality

I was online recently and I found this image on a design website.

It's a stamp that take Facebook's and Youtube's Like and Dislike system and puts it into the real world. This got me thinking if there were any other virtual ideas that could become literally reality.

This is an idea that I quickly came up with. Taking the idea from Facebook it is having famous paintings with the people in them tagged. I will aim to come up with more ideas like this so stay posted (Points if you can name all the paintings and painters, the first two should be easy but the last...).