October, 02, group 15

So… I was looking at our module last night and I remembered that last year, when we studied structure, there was this type of connection, a pin connection, the weakest one. Coincidentally, today was Thursday, structure day, so me and Madeline went on and asked our structure teacher to give us his critique. He was very nice and kind and this is what he said:

1. He liked our thingy. He liked that it moves and stucks the way it does ( it was before I told him that this is exactly where our problems are).

2. He suggested to reinforce that weakest point with something else, another module, a weird one, for example. Or a cube, a parallelogram, a rod,  etc.

3. We can thread our modules with rod, or system of rods.

4. We can use suspension cables to create such net that supports our system from collapsing.

5. Another suggestion, cast a module from, say, gypsum, and, as connecting element use flexible material which won’t brake.

5. He also gave an idea of changing shape a little bid by cutting of acute angles of the module and putting flat platform there ( I am attaching a picture of his diagram here). That will be really strong!

Hope the ideas will be helpful, make us think outside our thoroughly explored circle.

October, 01, Team 15 Review

Team #4 guys, I have maybe dozen of your pictures, I can give you them, I am too lazy to post. And you are still a competition, after all

Pictures From Last Friday Review

I am uploading pictures from the review. In the name there is day when they were taken, our team number and picture number (the last for computer convenience).