Week 9: Model Making Business!

Okay! So today we worked on some model making. We met outside of uni and decided to knuckle down a working model/video for our design freeze next week in class.
You'll find some photos of our progress down below:

Working on our reformed idea, we used tea light candles, an old fan from a power supply, balsa wood, plastic sheeting and string to express our idea.
Below you can find a video that we used in order to help show how it will work:

However, after further investigation, we have decided to make the fan leviatate using ARDINO MAGNETS.
An example of this can be found below:

 This is the result of a technical issue as this will allow for a frictionless spin on the fan. Further more, we have also decided to use an array of LIGHTERS which when close enough together (approx 12mm) will ignite automatically. Some sketches of how this may work can be found below, as well as general form solutions:

A challenge is to make the tangible mechanism that will allow the lighters to switch on/off in a safe environment. But this can be done AFTER the design freeze. We are planning another modelling day over the weekend.

Before the design freeze, I still have the brief to write up, the narrative to get down pact AND to research hard data to back up our theories. So still plenty of work to be done. Until next time!