5/22/2020

Final Post

With the year coming to a close this is my final blog post and I will go over what I have done throughout the year. For the first two quarters of the year we went through Auto-Cad training and then eventually got our certifications at the end of the second quarter. So now I am certified in both Auto-Cad and Solid works. Moving on to the third quarter we went on to group projects which my group picked construction as our field out of several options. We went on to build a crane and most of a bridge but then the virus hit. So during the time of the virus I have individually been working on a tensegrity table which I have yet to finish. Thank you for a good year.

5/15/2020

Hindered Progress

This week I have not been able to get very much work done on my project this has been due to the AP tests that I have been trying to study for. The research that I was able to do this week showed me that while my hook design was good the triangular design would be much easier to 3D print when we eventually return to school at one point. The triangular design looks like this:

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5/6/20

Break from Program: Tensegrity (Continued)

Now that I have designed my tensegrity hooks so that I could make a tensegrity structure I am trying to find out what materials would work best to actually construct it. I found out by watching videos and reading a few articles that you could build on out of just about anything from string to steel cables as long as they can hold the material that the hooks are made out of. While doing my research I found out that some changed need to be made to my hook design so that it will be able to hold up a table. Here is an example of what I want to build. 

5/1/20

Tensegrity

With solid works I built a tensegrity hook that can be used to build a tensegrity table. A tensegrity table is table that looks like it is floating when it is really just being held up by strings that are positioned in a clever way to utilize their tension to hold up a table. I started by drawing the hook then I cut a hole in the top. After cutting the top hole I put a pin in the middle to the strings would have something to tie around.