After completing a small section of my protoboard, because of the tightly packed together design of it and my relatively new soldering skills, it wasn’t working. So, I started again, scaled it down, redesigned, and everything worked. I also took my time while soldering the individual connections, rather than rushing in fear of not finishing on time. This has been a lesson that it’s more important to take my time making a small amount of quality work, instead of rushing to have lots to show for.

As part of interchange week, I went to see The Light Surgeons talk and live performance in the Immersive Visualisation Lab, a space I love so much. It was an incredible, slightly emotional performance, and it reminded me of the kind of work that made me join this course.

I also spent some time helping a friend on the Fine Art course. His goal was to make a mechanical sculpture of a duck, where its wings would be able to flap. After some research, I found a mechanism that would do the job.

I then built all the parts in Fusion and sent them off to be 3D printed. It was really fun to collaborate with someone from a different discipline. It’s also useful to see what it’s like to have a ‘client’ and figure out how to fulfil their request. We plan to collaborate again, when there is time, to experiment with mechanical sculptures or even animatronics.