From Frame To Frame-with-back To Frame-with-back-and-shelves. And Level Shelves At That! Next Step: Slapping

Added some things to the model of final project fold-down table. Though in the proposal I talked about a very stalwart table, the concept of a heavy table and the concept of a table that folds flat for moving are in conflict, so we are going for a lighter, more skeletal look in this iteration. Also added some hardware, in the form of little legs in the front of the sides and hooks for the beam. (Also some sweet and highly convincing wood skins!!)

Photos of the development of the lounge space and storage unit ideas. Bottom pictures start with of mockup of the lounge space, then moves to various drawings of the storage/divider units, then a cardboard model of a divider we will commit to plywood.

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More first iteration of incandescent project.

For the second light project, my group and I went about building a heated cardboard pillow.  We played with scoring cardboard to change its inherent physical properties.

Conclusion of the LED light project. I had concluded maybe before the last post that the auto wake up function from the iPhone would not be a feasible option without more electronics however I still wanted a charger in here to power the LEDs and provide a nice acoustic dock for dearest iPhoney-MciPhone. The build went along the lines of contact cementing the glass sheet to plywood, then epoxying the contacts to the underside of the glass. In retrospect I think I would opt to place a few globs of epoxy along the length of wire, rather than slathering all of it. I think a few globs might have looked cleaner. Next I took the plunge and opened up my iPhones cable, then soldered it back together but with the LED bug on the 5V line. Then is was just wrapping my precut Mylar sheets around my electronics and contact cementing those to the glass. I finished up with gluing in a small wooden support sanded to level the charger with my phone's 30 pin slot with a case on. Dark tests show desirable optical and bending effects similar to the paper models.

Print project. "Client" request: something that prevents pencils from falling to the bottom of her bag. Solution came in the form of magnetic pin on bag (with decorative seal backing) and a ring on the pencil to hold another magnet. After a few prints we got just the right dimensions to fit magnet and pencil, then epoxied in the magnets. Also made a ring for a dry erase marker because the screws on the whiteboard of our storage unit are magnetic.

Aaron with our main beam, taped but not yet glued up. streetlightchanger

Hinge time! Turns out they did not stick together, so I drilled a ton of material out of them--you can see the piles on the drill press. In another life these hinges could have been derpy little dinosaur heads. On the bottom you can see a dado'd foot piece for the desk. It was kind o a shame to ruin the nice pattern by chiseling out the remnants.

Glue day #1: cut all the hinge components and laminated them. Hopefully they don't stick to one another. Also cut better end pieces for the beam and glued those up.

Great strides in storagability. atlasdesignstudio benbasseches bradherz pgolyski

Mega update: after breadboarding up the latch circuit I found it would not toggle with a finger contact due to the high impedance of fingers. So step one was tracking down some 10MΩ resistors to up the impedance of the the whole thing. I decided that to keep the final assembly small I would do a “dead bug” circuit rather than a board. Next, I made some touch contacts out of copper shim—antennae for my bug. The process photos really illustrate the technique’s namesake. My first dead bug circuit came out successful, but it is quite a tedious method. Only recommended if you have a few zen hours to burn. Next, I cut my newly procured Mylar sheet into the appropriate sizes to create the body. Because I had a large sheet I upped the size of the largest cut above 8.5x11, which had always looked a bit anemic. I also glued up my scrap base: a glass sheet (carefully!) extracted from the glass scrap and some scrap plywood from the shelving project. Really I think they came away with a nicely complimentary color palate for being found materials.