Design Journal - Day 8

December 4th, 2018

Day 8 Journal 

By: Angel G 

The first hole was made on Nov 30th during my first period spare. I went down to the wood shop so that Will could help me. Before Will made the hole, an outline of the hole was made on one of the smaller wood walls. Measurements were taken so that the hole would at the right place for the metal dowel, and the hole was drawn according to the height of the cube. We made sure it was in correct place by checking to see if the top of cube is lined up with the bottom part of the hole. A diagram of this can be shown below:

A reciprocating saw (picture of one down below) from the wood shop was used to cut out a rectangular shape in the outline.

The wood left was removed using a drill from the wood shop and by making two holes on both sides of the outline. A diagram of this is shown above. This a milestone for us because it marks a big step in the completion of our toy project. This is because in the outline, we wanted to be able to rotate the pinball launcher so that cubes from all directions can be hit. We also made a barrier for the metal launcher, which is shown in the diagram below.

We found another problem after making the holes: the wood used to build the base was so grainy that there were chips between holes which leaded to friction. This will be discussed in Day 9.