Monday, April 03, 2006
New design for the mobile "Hauer" tile:
Now that we have the measures and a system that we think will work with enough leverage we are going to build the next prototype on thursday. The wheel will give us the needed cantilever and also isolate the pianowire against the Flexinol wire with the electrical current. The decision to make one end free moving inside a tube resulted from problems with friction in the earlier prototype. Below are some sketches that we made in designing the new prototype. We will need four wires per tile and expect to build a field of six tiles (three operational and three dummies). The setupt will be vertical with a lightsource behind it and a frame surrounding it to block the light from shining around the corners. Exact measures follow on wednesday. We need 8 more Flexinol wires of the type we got in the beginning, so if anybody has any over please contact us.
Now that we have the measures and a system that we think will work with enough leverage we are going to build the next prototype on thursday. The wheel will give us the needed cantilever and also isolate the pianowire against the Flexinol wire with the electrical current. The decision to make one end free moving inside a tube resulted from problems with friction in the earlier prototype. Below are some sketches that we made in designing the new prototype. We will need four wires per tile and expect to build a field of six tiles (three operational and three dummies). The setupt will be vertical with a lightsource behind it and a frame surrounding it to block the light from shining around the corners. Exact measures follow on wednesday. We need 8 more Flexinol wires of the type we got in the beginning, so if anybody has any over please contact us.
# posted by Nummer 5 : 4:41 PM
