The SHOW IS UP! The semester is finished. My degree is finished. I am done. Thank y’all for reading.Bye.
Day 233 – May 10th
Took a photo of the necklace being worn (finally) as I managed to forget to take one when we were…
Day 232 – May 9th
FINISHED MY VIDEO!! here ’tis:Here is the timelapse that went into it: And here is my my page in the…
Day 231 – May 8th
I was wrong, the motors got stuck -.- then the whole thing got stuck together and needed two people to…
Day 230 – May 7th
I think I’ve finally fixed the 3rd object after lots of soldering and recoding.Also we started setting up the show…
Day 228 – May 4th
Happy Star Wars Day, I’ve planned out the coming week as to complete everything as well as reprinting and sanding…
Day 227 – May 3rd
Necklace is all together, AND actually working yay. We filmed the videos (or most of them) today too.
Day 226 – May 2nd
My necklace is almost done! All soldered together! Resprayed the vambrace too, though the paint was crap and I’ll need…
Day 225 – May 1st
The Third year exhibition was good, Matt’s work was my fave (don’t tell anyone) Degree show catalogue page done!
Day 224 – Apr 30th
Need a new banner… Something that visualises my concept, I’m going with low shutter speed photos. Shifting perception of time…
Day 223 – Apr 29th
Banner Image done!!
Day 221 – Apr 27th
Banner Making! And Leon in my necklace! Coding is being stubborn AF! time to go for a drink.
Day 220 – Apr 26th
A fiery morning in the Product Flat: Painting and getting ready for the photoshoot today, trying to get things looking…
Day 219 – Apr 25th
Filler & Primer! Glueing wire clamping mechanisms:
Day 218 – Apr 24th
IT’S HERE!!!
Day 217 – Apr 23rd
Painting!!
Day 214 – Apr 20th
More Wood workshopping, need to file, sand and fill this over the weekend.
Day 213 – Apr 19th
Wood! Making Stuff!
Day 212 – Apr 18th
Printed some more stuff on the objet, soldered together the feather shields, made the inside of the vambrace. Need to…
Day 211 – Apr 17th
Did some soldering, Leon took a very pretty pic! It might be the image for design informatics in the degree…
Day 210 – Apr 16th
Highly unproductive day, planning the gesture controller.
Day 209 – Apr 15th
fixed the watch strap length in Solidworks as well as making the final parts: the buckle bits. Hopefully the printer…
Day 207 – Apr 13th
Back on Rhino, it NEEDED to be done today and I think it finally is! Here it is in all…
Day 206 – Apr 12th
Urgh Everything is going wrong with this necklace CAD! everytime I almost get there something pops up and I have…
Day 205 – Apr 11th
Back from Manny! 1 month to go! let’s go. CAD finishing today: Choices from: 1:2:3:4: I chose no 2 with…
Day 200 – Apr 6th
Came from this:Time to hop on a train to Manny!
Day 199 – Apr 5th
Almost there with the 3D printed resin watch Testing the stepper with 3 volts! It works! Now I can use…
Day 198 – Apr 4th
Day 197 – Apr 3rd
Prototypes!!!
Day 196 – Apr 2nd
Long day. Augmented with jelly babies. 3D Printing! CAD Woodworking Prototypes! Sanding the watch case: On 1000 grit so far…
Day 195 – Apr 1st
CAD CAD and more CAD:
Day 193 – Mar 30th
Lookit Pretty!!! It all fits! The screw thread fits perfectly too, awesome. Time to go get pissed! Merry Easter
Day 192 – Mar 29th
Trying to get my watch (1) done on the object printer, it’d come out very pretty and I could even…
Day 191 – Mar 28th
Day of little success, made a more successful mechanical mock up of 3 (puppet master bot)
Day 190 – Mar 27th
Penultimate tutorial today, Geoff seemed to think most things were a-ok but I need to be ready to send stuff…
Day 189 – Mar 26th
Got the linear stepper motors working!!! but they don’t have enough torque either. Ew. they look cool tho. If I…
Day 188 – Mar 25th
Out of your comfort zone. Shoe compression in correlation with distance from friends and family. As a representation and instigator…
Day 186 – Mar 23rd
Nice day, quite productive for once! Therapets returned!
Day 185 – Mar 22nd
FINISHED MY DISSERTATION!!!!!!!!!! here it is if you fancy a read, bit rough, I ran out of refining time and…
Day 179 – Mar 16th
Lazercutters hate me… I tried to use one twice and both times it fucked up, maybe they just ain’t for…
Day 177 – Mar 14th
Prepping for my first ever lazer-cutting session. I feel like a terrible product student, how can I not have lazercut…
Day 176 – Mar 13th
Here’s what was my plan for the necklace: Geoff wasn’t a fan of the wire or counterweight… So I need…
Day 175 – Mar 12th
Took in the necklace thing to cannibalise and turn into something else, after getting leon to model it for me:…
Day 171 – Mar 8th
Happy international women’s day! So quite a slow day, tested the current models for both objects: The watch didn’t work…
Day 170 – Mar 7th
Finally took some good photos of my prints! Here’s what I should’ve shown yesterday, as well as a clear plan…
Day 169 – Mar 6th
AAArrrghhh, long day. Dissertation meeting in the early morning, then 5 hours of presentations! Joe happened to be drag-Skyping though
Day 168 – Mar 5th
Lots to get done today, 2nd batch of touch interfaces:cardboard model/prototype for the Bank concept: AND! presentation for tomorrow!
Day 167 – Mar 4th
ECA has been snowed off all week basically so no work done except ideas and Dissertation stuff, oh well!
Day 161 – Feb 26th
Been trying tick all the things I need to do for next Tuesday. Finished the CAD forms experiments and technical…
Day 156 – Feb 21st
I have been CADing all day. So tiresome! Made a bunch of different forms to print tomorrow tho. The…
Day 155 – Feb 20th
Finished my gear experiment! the gears are a little shit so it’s not amazing but till I laser-cut them I…
Day 154 – Feb 19th
Ok, so today: Cogs! For the bank – feather device Printed the CAD file (nothing fits) Stepper motor is working.
Day 153 – Feb 18th
I made me some CAD files: (for the watch) Sadly the printers were in full use though so I may…
Day 149 – Feb 14th
So I left the studio for 10 seconds and now this is my profile pic… Also, I’ve made the model…
Day 148 – Feb 13th
Totes forgot it was pancake day! oops. Ok so Geoff thinks I deffo need 3 things which is fine, I’m…
Day 147 – Feb 12th
HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALVIN you talented baker you! Also, my palm in silicone came out quite well:I started model making for…
Day 144 – Feb 9th
So! Eventful day. Still little to no work done. Took me way too long to make 4 fingertip moulds in…
Day 142 – Feb 7th
Tried to get my servo to turn 360 in exactly 60s this morn. SOOO close! (lots of maths) But mainly…
Day 141 – Feb 6th
Busy day! Had a chat with Mark about the right type of motors to use. Apparently I was right on…
Day 140 – Feb 5th
I’ve mainly been taking apart servos (fun, right?). I wanna shrink down the components so the watch is as small…
Day 137 – Feb 2nd
Look it. Pretty pictures:
Day 135 – Jan 31st
Pop-up flea market in the Wee Red Bar today! Sadly all women’s clothes so nothing for me. Other than that…
Day 134 – Jan 30th
Glued some wooden pegs to my clocks yesterday to test out their strength. Could they move whilst pressed against anything?…
Day 133 – Jan 29th
Silicone attempt 2 went really well! Also, ideated a lot today, thinking about what in life would be useful to…
Day 132 – Jan 28th
Came in this fine Sunday morning to find out just how badly my attempts at casting silicone had gone… Soap…
Day 130 – Jan 26th
Not my most productive day ever, I have managed to construct something that would, in theory, function . I removed…
Day 128 – Jan 24th
Started off the day with a meeting with someone from the Talbot Rice Gallery. He seemed interested in what I…
Day 127 – Jan 23rd
Busy day today, tried to get the vibration motor clock to function with a single arduino which sadly isn’t possible…
Day 126 – Jan 22nd
I’m back in the studio, time off has been fun but not productive. Currently aiming to get my timepiece thingy…
Day 56 – Nov 24th
Managed to do two plaster attachments yesterday evening, they’re very fun to do. Speedy form generation. Finished the one I’ve…
Day 54 – Nov 22nd
As I was yesterday, I am still trying to get my code working for the magnetoreceptor. Not going too great…
Day 52 – Nov 20th
Managed to start the project book over the weekend, even if it was just the graphical layout. Eight double pages…
Day 49 – Nov 17th
I’ve been feeling a little demotivated of late and I failed to do anything significant on my dissertation yesterday. BUT,…
Day 47 – Nov 15th
So I went to the ArmEd meeting yesterday and it was quite enlightening, they’re very ambitious and want some crazy…
Day 45 – Nov 13th
Over the weekend I did 0 work on my actual projects (except 3D printing) but my website is now looking…
Day 42 – Nov 9th
So far today I mainly have been thinking about creating fast models that I can print out over the weekend…
Day 40 – Nov 8th
FINALLY! My magnetoreceptor, arduino nano and new vibration motors have arrived! I’ve spent all day soldering and testing them and…
Day 39 – Nov 7th
No work done today sadly… The morning was spent in conversation with Jon, was quite useful. We teased out that…
Day 38 – Nov 6th
Tried my hardest over the weekend to turn a Rhino file into a Solidworks one to help with creating a…
Day 35 – Nov 3rd
Ok it’s been a while been busy in Manchester and with dissertation research so not much to post here. But…
Day 25 – Oct 24th
The unthinkable has happened. I’ve managed to lose the USB stick with all my product files on! I won’t miss…
Day 21 – Oct 20th
CADing and 3D printing today: The hand fits! Printing more tests too: Time to go get pissed!
Day 30 – 19th Oct
Testing out two methods of making the Magnetoreception Module, I’m calling them analogue and digital. 1. Digital: Two magnetoreceptors connected…
Day 29 – 18th Oct
Ok so I’ve been looking at transhumanism and sensory augmentation and found this dude who created vests with sensory input…
28th – Oct 17th
Today I did very little but here’s Alvin while we played buckaroo on him. (He fell asleep)
Day 27 – Oct 16th
Ok it’s been a while, done a lot of thinking about what I want to produce and made some weird…
Day 21 – 10th Oct
Too much this weekend brought my immune system to a standstill, too ill for uni. But, I’ve still gotten some…
Day 20 – 7th Oct
Exhibition was fab: ethereal as hell!
Day 18 – 5th Oct
Been researching all week so far, (not much to put on here) trying to figure out my dissertation question as…
Day 15 – 2nd Oct
We had our two week project presentation today which I was promptly late for. I also managed to make a…
Day 14 – 1st Oct
The filming is done, not sure how I can edit it all together, hopefully Premier Pro is easy to use!…
Day 13 – 30th Sept
The thing is updated: cable-ties added, arms reattached and one replaced. Time to to test it out properly, here’s where I’ll…
Day 11 – 28th Sept
I finally managed to get inducted in the metal workshop today, it only took me 2 years. But due to…
Day 9 – 26th Sept
I made a thing! It hurts to sit in, bits are upside down and the joins are crap, but it’s…
Day 8 – 25th Sept
Today started off with underprepared Dave tutorials then I finally managed to get into the workshop. I’ve decided to attach…
Day 5 – 22nd Sept
Gotten lots of ideas down today, not many good ones but I think my dream of 4 arms might be…
Day 4 – 21st Sept
This project is starting a little slowly. BUT I had some good ideas! I want to make an AI symbiotic…
Day 3 – 20th Sept
As usual at the beginning of a project I’ve been attempting to map out all of the possible areas that…
Day 2 – 19th Sept
Today has been unproductive to say the least! Still getting into the swing of things, I guess. I’ve been enthusiastically…
Day 1 – 18th Sept
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