User:Ruskda01/enes100/Strandbeest

Write problem/project Goal
Design and create a strandbeest out of cardboard and other easily accesible materials.

My First Task
I am going to gather information of previous strandbeest to see what is the best design and material to use. I will also create a prototype to compare with my teammates on how to create a plausible strandbeest.

Summary of actual work over first weekend
I planned on creating a small strandbeest prototype to compare with the other members of my team. However creating the strandbeest took a lot longer than I planned, and I was only able to create a few legs.

Week1 Narrative
I created some paper strandbeest legs, and I gave my insight on how we should create the actual strandbeest.

My Second Task
This weekend I plan on creating a chassis for the strandbeest.

Summary of actual work over second weekend
Over the weekend, I planned on building some prototype chassis's for the strandbeest. My main goal was to find out what the best material would be. This material had to be cheap, and something that could be found at home. So I began looking online to see how a strandbeest chassis looked like, and what materials other people had used. To my surprise, I stumbled across some great websites that will help the group in designing the strandbeest, and this will help me build a chassis.

Week2 Narrative
Over the weekend, I searched for what materials would be useful to create a strong chassis for the strandbeest. While I was online I found some great websites that would help us design the strandbeest.This website gave me an idea of how the strandbeest actually moves.Theo Jansen's Strandbeest This second video is about a man who built a strandbeest in his garage. This video also helped me sort out some design issues, and it showed me how a large chassis would look like. Garage Strandbeest At this point, I finally knew what a chassis was, and now I had to build a miniature one for the strandbeest. This chassis would have to be strong enough to support the weight of all the legs, and be able to support the entire strandbeest. First I created a paper chassis that was meant to resemble a chassis like this one Paper strandbeest Then I created a chassis out of cardboard, which resembled a picture frame. The cardboard was stronger than the paper, but both of the materials would not hold very well. I also found out that the chassis would change depending on which model our group wanted to build. With this in mind, I just build what I considered to be prototype chassis.

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

Summary of actual work over third weekend
Over the weekend, I decided to put my plans into action. My goal was to build some strandbeest legs out of cheap, accesible, and fun material. The material I used was straw, and it is a great item to make the strandbeest out of.

Week3 Narrative
To begin building the strandbeest leg, I gathered the needed materials. I got straws, scissors, a stapler, paperclips, and my itouch. I began building the strandbeest legs to resemble the straw legs of this video Drinking Straw Strandbeest, this video is from our team page, and I used it as the rubric to build my straw legs. After a couple of minutes, I completed the first straw leg, and it looked like this, (see image below). Notice how the triangles of the straw leg are not proportional, and that this leg would not be able to hold the weight of the strandbeest. The leg is also missing the part that would be used to attach the the motor, this was intentional because I wanted to focus on building the overall structure of the leg. I had also used staples to attach the different straw pieces of the leg, and this made the corners stiff; it also ruined the shape of the leg. After reviewing my prior mistakes, I gave it another go. My second strandbeest leg looked like this:. I made some drastic improvements from the first strandbeest leg. In the improved strandbeest leg, notice how the triangles are actually in the shape of right triangles. I also used tape to bind the straws, instead of staples. The tape was much easier to use, and it gave the leg plenty of support. Next week, I plan on creating a tutorial of how I created these straw legs. The main purpose of the tutorial will be to help other groups see how to build a straw strandbeest leg, and they can improve the tutorial in anyway they see fit.

My Fourth task
I plan on creating a tutorial of how I created the straw strandbeest leg. The main purpose of this tutorial will be to give other groups, and idea of how to begin building the strandbeest. They will also be able to edit the tutorial in anyway they see fit, and this will help create a working strandbeest.

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

Week4 Narrative
Tell a detailed story describing what you did for your team over the weekend.

Complete Team Page
Fill out the Team Form (should have already copied the form, created the team page, linked to it and started filling it out).