Learning

Monday, 17 March 2014

Trains

Over the weekend I stated to make a card train to test my plans. I got the plans out of this grate book called Miniature Locomotive Construction and it has everything you need to make a train but I had to modify the plans to work with my chase off a secondhand train the difference is that the books plans are for a chase with the motor at the back my chase motor is at the front so here are so photos of all my prototypes:

My own google glass

Over the last few weeks I have been trying to make a prototype Google glass. I started of buy using an old ice block stick to use as a ruler. I drew out a few shapes that had a kink in it :

I made sides and taped them together. Now to see behind you I needed some type of mirror I found a little one and glued it in:

Now you can look behind and even better you can over lay the picture behind you over the picture in front. The next steep is to try and get a projector or a small screen to fit at the back here are some photos of a large projector projecting in to the glass:

Sunday, 16 March 2014

Making a magic paddle

Over the weekend I made a magic paddle. I followed Steve Ramsey's instructions:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFFQuOSpybw

Thursday, 6 March 2014

Arcade game mind map

Fun weird Christmas decoration

To make this weird Christmas decoration

Things you will need

Mini Santa

transparent globe

salt

photo

I 3D printed a mini Santa guy and filled the globe with salt the dropped Santa in I glued this pic in the back:

You can shake the globe around and make Santa get berried in the snow.

Buttons for Whack and smack app

Model making to test techniques

This is a model I made from scratch to test scenery and the water for my train set.

First I made the basic shape of the bank out of polystyrene then added plaster cloth over the top to add a hard shell. I panted in the water and then added modpoge glue gloss to give the water depth. Slowly I added the scenery like the pier and the path as well as the static grass. The pier was made out of old ice block sticks and thick skewers and then panted.