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Some of the semi finalists for my Photo. 

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I filmed and made a story board, found some giant white boards too. 

My photo required a red jacket, a lamp, and a mirror.

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wire and string didn’t work they got stuck. I used paper as the lever things.

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cracked the lid tryna make it spin better

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All going well. pva the leather, make switches. good good

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Used heat shrink and casted a cap in 3D print. the print made it greyish, eewy. Heat shrink is saving me.

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printed the 3D print here.

tried boiling leather, didn’t do much. changed colour.

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Here’s some stringy prints that didn’t work.

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I cut the wires down a bit. Bent them so they’d run smoother. Removed the tape ‘wings’ and replaced them with rubber bands. But after all this, it still needed help!

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the design sucked and was very stiff. the motor could not spin it at all. The wire was so difficult to get in those holes. none of it worked!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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this shows how every piston is out of phase to give a wave effect.

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this is the full assembly, the pictures speak for them selves, I hated every second of this Experiment!

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this is the story of the second prototype and Experiment 9&10

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some brain storming went on this week lots of ideas. I was inspired by mechanical wings I saw on pinterest here’s my board! 

https://www.pinterest.nz/arthurewan/141-p3/

In the end I decided on an idea based on the cuttlefish. From there I sketched a car style piston rod with six ‘bits’. Each bit was  60 degrees off from the next one to make a full circle effect and make the ‘wave’ happen. 

I did a concept 3D print and then sketched a better version.

I also looked at ways of attaching things to the motor.  

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Some final model concept sketches, more coming in the future.

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The first Image will be my final. I know it’s bland but, I don’t think the other ones show “quirky and slow” as well as this one. 

The rest of these are just cool angles I got of the ‘visualisation’.