07.10.2010 - 09.10.2010 Tamaki Session

Working very hard for the past few days, we are trying to get our tubes done as quickly as possible. We got told on fri that our health and safety officer will be seeing us on monday to see whether we can actually make our structure on the night. If it's too dangerous, they can cancel our participation.


We really need some sponsorship from v's.. going through at least 1 a day for the past week and we think we've grown immune to caffine to fight fatigue.



Our tubes connected in one layer of the net size of the blankets relative to the tubes

testing out against strobe lights

Cameron and Kassidy sewing connections with a pile of tubes caught between their legs

Both layers of tube ready to be sewn on top of each other to form a net

Posting at 2.30 am isn't fun. Need to sleep now. Goodnight.

03.10.2010- 06.10.2010 Tamaki Session

WOAH ~ 10 days left! and our group is starting to get desparate and stressed. Working everyday, sewing, cutting, measuring, thinking, hastily trying to finish in time for the competition.
We cant believe how well we can work under time pressure, no time wasting at all.
Our project is still 2D, flat on the ground so we dont even know if it will work. It should. It has to.
Hopefully it will be done by the end of the week so we have time to fix problems.

Our working bay is becoming a mess.

Close up of the Sewing in the connection. Double sewing to strengthen the connections

Using long strips of wood to measure and tape the triangle size of the blanket. We need to do 48 of these modules.

Laying out our module on the ground. Its actually bigger than we thought.

different piles of tubes- need to cut and sew. need to sew connections. finished sewing.

Hury! 10 days only!

29.09.2010 - 02.10.2010 Tamaki Sessions

For the past week, we've been working at Tamaki every single day. After finishing a 1:1 prototype of the tube structure, as shown from the previous post, we have started on making the final thing.


Sewing Plastic connections from the 1:1 prototype

1:1 prototype inflated with a 1m x 1m x 1m equilateral trianglular base

Size in relation to little small minion

Net showing the structure and names of each parts. This net is the final design of the module. the top 8 levels consists of 6 triangles with base 2m and height 1m. The last level is more complicated to fit into a square base from a triangular prism at the top. This is to make more space to hide our blowers and lighting.
Emergency blankets will be sewn over each of the seams, cladding it and hiding the tubes.

Kas cutting plastic into strips for tubes

All the tubes cut and sorted into piles. We cut strips of wood into 2m long lengths that acted like a ruler

The different connections between each tubes. We made laser cut templates that we traced over.

layout of our module on the ground. It's actually quite big.

Hexagon connection for 6 tubes at a point

Pentagons for 5 tubes at a point

We used masking tape to make a seam line for the sewing to follow.

Watching gossip girl! Finished the first season in 2 days

2 weeks left guys!! Good luck XD