Day 6 - April 29th 2009

Today we worked extremely hard and diligently on what we thought was a lot of work. As much as we would love to say we got a lot of building done, after a few mistakes we feel we could have done more. Emily measured the roof and Alexa proceeded to cut out the shapes. Emily made the outlines of the characters as well as the front door, everything was going smoothly until we realized the following that we had not included in our sketches:

§  Problem: We needed another piece of wood to hold the followers in place so they wouldn't fall off the track of the cam. 

   Solution: We have cut out two pieces of wood (35 x 10) that will be glued in place between the axle and the character on the end of the follower to hold it in place. 

§   Problem: We realized it is almost impossible to cut squares (which we need for the windows and the doors) in the middle of a piece of wood. 

   Solution: We will use the drill press to put the largest size hole possible in three locations to use as make-shift circular windows, and we shouldn't have a problem cutting out the door as we can start the hole from the bottom of the wood rather than the middle.

§   Problem:  We didn't write the correct measurements for the width of the two rectangular pieces for the roof, so we are missing about 5 cm in total on the top of the roof.

    Solution: We have yet to solve this issue yet, but Alexa plans on re-cutting two new 19.5 x 35 cm slabs of wood for the roof.

Today we also used almost every power tool in the tech lab! So we definitely learnt a lot about cutting straight lines, and measuring twice and cutting once.

Emily & Alexa