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Fancy Photos and a Drawing for Project 3

Through these photos I wanted to show unpleasantness and redundancy of the MDF not quite “fitting in”,

The controllable nature of the motor, dependant on the wax’s leverage,

and the disjointedness at the MDF - Timber, hybrid dovetail joints.

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Here is the final video for Project 3!

I wanted to show a couple of things through this, as explained earlier. The unpleasant nature of the sound, the redundancy of the general framework of the model, and the contrasting Inviting Nature, as well as the furthermore non inviting nature of the sound that is output, but the inviting controllable nature of the curved platform, which creates a contradiction.

The music was meant to show an element of confusion and mystique, to aid the unpleasant but inviting nature of the model. This was sourced form bensound.com

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And Here I have the complete composition for all I did for Project 3!

Through this process I want to show 3 things, which are 3 words-Redundancy in obvious parts of the model, Unpleasantness conveyed through sound from the propeller and and Inviting feeling with which the wood use and the hand imprint on a wax platform should show. Perhaps an opposing quality to this as the motor produces, is a non-inviting, aggressive means of producing an unpleasant sound, such as to apply force to create a non pleasant sound.

I took to the project with a bit of “Iron man,” hand recognition kind of design, that iterated from being a standard platform press, platform destructive design, to an unpleasant sound provider. I wanted there to be an inviting feeling, but an unwelcome feeling, when you do put your hand on it.

So here’s how I did it:

I started off by 3d modelling a propeller, which I sourced off Sketchup’s 3d warehouse, and then I 3d printed this in blue spool. this was made to be about 10cm by 10 cm.

While this happened, I measured up a piece of strong timber that would be strong enough to hold the vibrations of the motor and the rotational inertia of the whole model. The measurement would be enough to hod two widths of MDF on either side, as well a hand’s width and length. Edges of the Timber were chiseled out to fit into the inversely cut MDF pieces.

Wedges of MDF were cut out to length and the inverted parts of these were removed so as to fit into the chiseled, inconsistent dovetail parts of the Timber. This part of the model, aimed to support the wax hand platform, whilst showing a contrast and connection between both wooden parts.

Another part of MDF was cut to act as a bridge between side frames, and to hoist the wax frame.

The wax platform was made using a tin foil, blue tack surrounded mold, placed on a bench top. 3 layers of wax were poured and as each layer set, I used a latex glove to set a hand imprint into the platform. Lines and areas were carved out of the wax, so they could sit nicely on the wood hoists. Another observation, was that as the wax cooled down into the foil mold, the mold shrunk and the wax platform curved up so as to provide a changeability on pressing the button.

Holes were drilled out of the timber to hold the button and the motor, so as the motor was placed close to the hoist. When the user places their hand on the platform, this will force the hoist down into the propeller, forcing one side to hit the propellor, while the other hits the wax platform.

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Through these photos, I found the way the light came through the drill holes quite fascinating, as it showed the darker side of the model’s character with that of the vinyl and it’s wood grain pattern. I also tried to highlight the inconsistent extrusion of the vinyl through the wood and the redundant nature of the half done finger joint at the top of the model.

It was found that over time, each material’s dependency on each other due to their unbalanced force distribution.

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How I did it

To get the connection between vinyl and wood going, I thought I might create a dependency on the weight distribution. So I started by cutting the wood diagonally,

With the vinyl attached to it while cutting

So they both gave the same shape and size. From here i marked out where I would saw off and drill, so as to create an inconsistent or redundant pattern of connection.

And I cut this to scale. I then set out to cut the vinyl so as to thread flush through the holes as the holes themselves curved downwards, in yet another inconsistent fashion.

These were threaded through and the model was photographed. Fancy photos to follow

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Connections!

This week’s experiment focuses on the connection between two materials, that I chose to be Vinyl (I have heaps of it, so I thought I might be a more creative with it this time!) and MDF wood. Through the joining of these two materials, I hope to convey the following keywords, through two different overlaps/connections: Redundancy, Strong and Inconsistency.

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Although the photos don’t describe it, I ended up using one of the vinyl stands as a holder for a piece of paper, so that with varied lengths of paper dispersion, there would be different sounds and varied flicking noises. Through the greater sound of flicking of the paper, I wanted to show the redundant attribute of other two stands, the weak nature of the rotation given that it stops at something as small as a budge of the hand, and the simple things that can be deduced just from the spinning of a nail.

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How I went about weak experimentation

So I started by thinking about how I might use vinyl as the frame to the rotational apparatus, so I thought I might make a deception and make it look like the vinyl frame is the propeller when it functionally isn’t.

So I got to cutting out frames for the vinyl to be stapled into tightly wrapping the motor.

I then stapled together the vinyl frames tightly and re-soldered wiring and switch into the circuit, even though what is seen is the button switch.

After I cut a piece of wood to act as my rotary sound maker, I found that the wood would take too much battery power to rotate and flick against vinyl and create sound, so..........

I soldered a nail onto the top of the motor!

From here I cut the edges of one side of the tri - stand support so that there would be an exponential decay with the sound that the motor gives, starting strong and then weakening exponentially to a particular level. Fancy video to follow

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Action and Reaction!

Here begins the experimentation to use wood and vinyl to bring out the sound hidden withing to create a multi sensory stimulus. Along the process I will try to integrate a bell as well. For this experiment I decided to go about using the keywords simple, redundant and strong. This experiment will work on defying the strong keyword.

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And here are the fancy photos for my resultant wax flinging. I thought I’d see how food coloring reacted to the motion, as to whether it would get flung everywhere just as the wax did. To some extent it did, but still, interesting forms were seen represented on the vinyl, as well as plain evidence that the skewer spinner didn’t last very long. Nevertheless, the results were rather intriguing.

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Seen here is the process I used to spray the wax everywhere, using the spinning motion of the motor. I used Vinyl and the container that the wax was molten in, to capture this. To send the wax everywhere, I used a deliberately unevenly designed cross made of skewers and sellotape, taped to the motor. 

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And it is time to bring in a bit of spinny bits to experimentation with materials!

This week I’ll see how a single DC motor weighs up against the remainder of my molten wax from my project 2, as it dries up.

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Through this drawing, I tried to emphasize the bleeding effect of the still liquid food colouring, from the solid wax, and how it travels along the bolt.

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And here are 2 features I really did want to accentuate through the photos. I wanted to show the frailty of the valleys, and the newspaper in turn, through these photos, as the lat set of photos, for this project!

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Seen here are the fancy sections of the newspaper fabric symbiosis. This is part 3 of 4, fancy photo sets.

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And here is the remainder of the candle steel symbiosis photos. Part 2 of 4 fancy photo taking sets!

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And for the runner up!

For the runner up, I decided to make a similar fabric to the wooden fabric seen below:

Sourced from here

but instead, this case would use minced newspaper, to provide support to the flimsy fabric. So here’s what I did:

I cut up the newspaper and set it to soak in water for a night.

After soaking it for a night, I flattened the soaked newspaper.......

and flattened out the paper using the cloth,

to give this!

Meanwhile, I laid the cloth out and let it dry,

so that I could apply PVA glue to stick the newspaper “pizza” to it.

So on went the pizza.

I left this to dry for another night, so it eventually stuck together, but wasn’t quite dry.

At this point, I cut a cross along the diameter of the pizza, so it could become mobile, and voila, a support between cloth and vice versa!