Day 3: Bottle Opener & The Bird

  Tuesday started with a crash: My computer died! Me being me, I hadn't saved the four or the latest version of 0 and 1 anywhere, so there went hours of work. After accepting the final decree from the help desk that there was nothing else that could be done, I made my way to the engineering studio few hours early.
  My plan was to rebuild the four and adjust the one. Lyn was there and he suggested that we try out the zero by itself first, to see if our design works, before we build all the extra parts on something that may or may not work. While trying to build another oval attached to a rectangle for this experiment, we found out that there is an 'ellipse' template. Lovely! If only we had known that last week...

   
  So here is the part for the 'rectangularly handled elliptical bottle opener'. And it worked! Well, in the end. It needed a bit of filing because it was a little too thick but there was nothing majorly wrong with it. The dimensions were correct and the handle was comfortable.
  During class, we started a new project. Now, we need to build a mechanism that will move like bird wings out of Lego. We looked at different machines made from Lego and how they worked. Then, we partnered up to come up with 5 different designs. We're still working on that...