Wednesday 12th: day three and it’s certainly getting harder to wake up in the mornings: 6am starts are not nice, anyway I digress. Today we started off slowly not with any real structure of work, however once DJ and Matt arrived we got going.
Firstly I gave (the kids) a quick lesson in using scale rules in order for them to start making the 1:50 models. secondly me Josh and Gabby started to assign jobs to ourselves, for example Josh drafted up a simple CAD drawing of the layout of the inflatables while Gabby started movement diagrams and artistic impressions of the final design.
As the morning slowly rolled on I soon realised that the kids didn’t really understand what they were doing, for example we ended up with a seven sided hexagon, four meter tall buildings that were supposed to be three etc. Not to worry though as we decided to task the kids with designing the A1 page : all of the information that would be required on the sheet and the way that it would be set out on the page.
After a short lunch I finished making the skeletons of the remaking models, then Josh built the roofs for each of the eight models. Once he finished that we worked together to fabricate the tracing paper triangles that sit in between the straws.
Gabby had a few problems of her own: the main one being the movement diagrams which were far more difficult to design than first thought.
Homework: again we were asked to allocate the kids some homework to complete on Thursday. At first we couldn’t think of anything to give them but that very quickly as it became very appear not that we would need to know what Materials inflatable structures are made of, how large the fans would need to be, what horsepower would be required, what PSI change there would be, the cubic litres required to inflate a bouncy castle of similar size etc.
By the end of the day all of the models had been completed, the movement diagrams had been refined and the layout for the A1 page had been finished. Tomorrow will hopefully be a task of collating all of the information and arranging it on the A1 sheet.