Prototyping A Digital Latch For The Old Light-cum-paper Project. After I Made A Space Heater Out Of NANDs

Divider storage in action.

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Assembly of final snuggle pillow. Inconspicuous hot glue and cardboard to make the form and then a slide in round that holds the bulb. Pleasant warming, pleasant orange glow pattern, all it needs now is some cinnamon aromatherapy sticks. joshlearnstodraw ellidesignstudio14 bachterh

Great strides in storagability. atlasdesignstudio benbasseches bradherz pgolyski

From frame to frame-with-back to frame-with-back-and-shelves. And level shelves at that! Next step: slapping those hinges on. atlasdesignstudio benbasseches bradherz pgolyski

Process shots of the group table project.

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

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.

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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A slightly better representation of the folddown (though still missing many components). Beam (not shown) goes through the notches in the front of the side panels to hold it together. Without the beam in the top folds down against the back, then the sides fold in on top of the top. The beam reinserts into hooks on the outside of the sides to secure the flatpack. 

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!!)