User:M'kay M'kay/myWork

Write problem/project Goal
Design and Create a StrandBeest

My First Task
My first task of this group project was to get a better understand of the strandbeest and come up with some idea to build the strandbeest.

Summary of actual work over first weekend
As my teammate suggested I went to www.theojansen.com and see how the final product will look like. I was able to see the dimension used on the original strandbeest make by Theo Jansen. I wrote some of the questions that I had so that I can ask/adress it to the team members.

Week1 Narrative
I joined the group on tuesday so, I did not do anything over the weekend. But, on Tuesday and Wedensday, I dicided to mainly focus on the leg of the strandbest because, I thought that would be one the parts that I have to take care of soon. So, after a little research I can up with a simple idea, I shared the Idea with the team and they all seem to support it. I will have to see how to make my idea happen on the strandbeest the we are planning to build.

My Second Task
I shared my idea of connecting the triangle with some sort of drive shaft to avoid friction within the triangles made up of wood. So, my task is to elaborate my idea more and see how we can make it happen. I have been looking in to drive shafts and see how it really works; I am getting a better understanding of it. I will design a drive shaft the would work with our strandbeest over the weekend.

Summary of actual work over second weekend
Over the weekend I built a mini strandbeest that was given to me by the one of the teammate. What we will be building is going to be very similar to the strandbeest. So, it gave me an insight of what the strandbeest will really look like. Building it also help me come up with some cool idea the to help our project come to life.

Week2 Narrative
The team decided to build a mini strandbeest to illustrate what our strandbeest we will be building will look like to the class and give us more ideas. When I open the box I thought it was impossible for me to put it together in one weekend because there was some many pieces and I did not know where everything goes. First I made sure that I had all the pieces that I needed to completely built the strandbeest. Surprisingly there were about 120 small pieces that I had to put together. Starting the build was the hardest part but, as I was building it started to get a better understanding so, it started to get easier and easier. After 5 hours of work and documenting I finished putting all the pieces together. Everything seems to be put together well but, the strandbeest is not really working properly at this point. I will have to do a little adjustment to get it to work as it should. Helpfully I will go to class with a functioning mini strandbeest by tuesday for class.

My Third task
Record what you are planning on doing for the team during the third weekend.

Summary of actual work over third weekend
How is what you did different than what you planned?

Week3 Narrative
Tell a detailed story describing what you did for your team over the weekend.

My Fourth task
Record what you are planning on doing for the team during the final weekend of project work.

Summary of actual work over fourth weekend
The group project has been going well. We all were pitching in some ideas to push the project in the right direction. On thursday, Matt and I were looking for a way to connect the driving pieces of the strandbeest we will be building. We came up with two solid ideas and we built both of the ideas on extra pieces of woods we had. To present to class and show it our teammates.

Week4 Narrative
Tell a detailed story describing what you did for your team over the weekend. The team is making a tremendous progress on this project. We pretty much have all the pieces that we need to assemble the strandbeest. The drive shaft of the strandbeest is the most complicated had challenging task that we will be facing soon. We had an Idea of a drive shaft at first but, after getting to this point we learned that the Idea we had isn't going to work for many reasons. On a side note I have been working on the mini strandbeest myself. By building the mini strandbeest, I learned so much about the strandbeest and I we able to contribute to the project more. I will be finished with strandbeest soon and will post pictures and present it to class.

Complete Project Page
Follow the "project done" format. The project isn't really done; the challenging stuff is just starting. Some of my teammates and I are willing to stay on this porject and get this project done as soon as posible.