For a more comprehensive photographic journey through the mathatter's process see:
http://ssbypayton.blogspot.com/
The site visits are always exciting and enlightening. They help remind me why we are doing this project and what we need to keep in mind. They also keep us thinking more realistically about where and how our project will fit into John, Sarah, and Otto's lives. The pictures on Payton's blog do a better job of sharing these visits than my words do.
Monday, November 28, 2011
Aaaaaand the clock keeps ticking.
The countdown on the website says eight days left. Scary.
It's a bit more than that due to some recent schedule changes, but nevertheless, time is running out.
Seeing as there is no evidence of the recent drama on my blog, I shall offer a short recap. The past few weeks have seen the destruction of team otto, the subsequent creation of two new teams (team fucknut and the mathatters), and the evolution of a reactive and movable radiant heating system. I can't say that I am thrilled with the turn of events. As I have previously expressed, I see the split as unprofessional, immature, and illogical. Part of the reson I joined this class was to work in a large interdisciplinary team and see that team through obstacles and disagreements, though one can only imagine the drama that would have arisen had team otto remained united.
Enough about the split though. The radiant heating mat that Maria, Payton and I have been working on is finally coming together. More of the parts are arriving every day and we are all crossing our fingers that they will work the way we want them to. I spent several hour in the woodshop this morning getting the joining pieces cut to shape and fitting them to the based OSB. The shape of those connecting pieces has gone through a lot of iterations as our design has evolved, a few of them are pictures below along with an image of the finished connectors. Tomorrow we should be gluing and screwing the wood pieces together and stapling on the mats.
I think our biggest issues going forward will be getting the right finish with the acrylic inlays and integrating the cushions that we decided to add last week after our discussion with Max. We spent about an our sitting on our heater arguing about the cushion: whether or not and how. Some pictures are attached of a cushion in progress.
Payton and I went to Home Depot last Wednesday morning to order our top surface and after much debate decided on a 'burnished straw cork,' which was meant to arrive on or before November 30th. I recieved a call late the night saying that the arrival date had been pushed back to DECEMBER 17TH. NOT OKAY. I went in as soon as possible (meaning black friday, talk about bad timing) to sort it out, and after a great many phone calls, cancellations and reorders we ended up changing to a 'cork mocha' which will still not be arriving until early next week (at the latest) this does not give us much time to finish the surface and install the hardware necessary for the reactive lighting. All very worrying.
We will get there though. I am happy with the mission of our project and the fact that we were still able to make a (hopefully) suitable product despite having our budget and manpower halved. Though we are more efficient as three, I believe we would have had more opportunity of creative exploration as six. As is stands, we just don't have the time to explore as many options as I would have liked.
It's a bit more than that due to some recent schedule changes, but nevertheless, time is running out.
Seeing as there is no evidence of the recent drama on my blog, I shall offer a short recap. The past few weeks have seen the destruction of team otto, the subsequent creation of two new teams (team fucknut and the mathatters), and the evolution of a reactive and movable radiant heating system. I can't say that I am thrilled with the turn of events. As I have previously expressed, I see the split as unprofessional, immature, and illogical. Part of the reson I joined this class was to work in a large interdisciplinary team and see that team through obstacles and disagreements, though one can only imagine the drama that would have arisen had team otto remained united.
Enough about the split though. The radiant heating mat that Maria, Payton and I have been working on is finally coming together. More of the parts are arriving every day and we are all crossing our fingers that they will work the way we want them to. I spent several hour in the woodshop this morning getting the joining pieces cut to shape and fitting them to the based OSB. The shape of those connecting pieces has gone through a lot of iterations as our design has evolved, a few of them are pictures below along with an image of the finished connectors. Tomorrow we should be gluing and screwing the wood pieces together and stapling on the mats.
I think our biggest issues going forward will be getting the right finish with the acrylic inlays and integrating the cushions that we decided to add last week after our discussion with Max. We spent about an our sitting on our heater arguing about the cushion: whether or not and how. Some pictures are attached of a cushion in progress.
Payton and I went to Home Depot last Wednesday morning to order our top surface and after much debate decided on a 'burnished straw cork,' which was meant to arrive on or before November 30th. I recieved a call late the night saying that the arrival date had been pushed back to DECEMBER 17TH. NOT OKAY. I went in as soon as possible (meaning black friday, talk about bad timing) to sort it out, and after a great many phone calls, cancellations and reorders we ended up changing to a 'cork mocha' which will still not be arriving until early next week (at the latest) this does not give us much time to finish the surface and install the hardware necessary for the reactive lighting. All very worrying.
We will get there though. I am happy with the mission of our project and the fact that we were still able to make a (hopefully) suitable product despite having our budget and manpower halved. Though we are more efficient as three, I believe we would have had more opportunity of creative exploration as six. As is stands, we just don't have the time to explore as many options as I would have liked.
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