Filipe & Amelia

Our original idea was to make a windmill. Here is the sketch.

Filipe had an idea for the wheel.

 

The little wheels would keep rolling in the semi-circles. We thought it would be cool to combine the two ideas. The reason that we didn’t do it eventually was that we anticipated the friction at the rod would be too big to enable the wheel to freely rotate.

So this is our final design.

I actually had another idea, but ended up not making it. Yet it should be fun to post it here.

It is supposed to function as a hanger.

We had fun with this assignment. The plasma cutter was hard to work with at first, (It made very clear to me how important it is to set the speed right) but ended up to be a lot of fun.