During this taster, we split into groups to design a moving vehicle that could hold the weight of one person. To start off we looked at several shapes that we could integrate into the main body of our our design, to make it both interesting to look at but also to keep it functional. We decided on an arch shape as we believed this would be the strongest and so able to support the weight, we planned on using two bicycle wheels and two smaller wheels to create stability. We started by layering up card to create the main body of our design but found that when we tried to attach the two back bike wheels they were too wobbly and needed more support, therefore we added blocks inbetween the wheel and the body to keep them in place. However the wheels were still not secure enough, so we decided to change the shape of the main design and make our own wheel out of layers of card rather than use the two bicylce wheels. We then attached the two smaller wheels at the back and used long pieces of layered card between the front wheel and the back axel to keep them in place. Unfortunately we ran out of time to finish our design as we had had changed it so late on, but if we had had more time we would of attached more pieces of layered card either side of the large wheel attaching it to the main body to keep it in place.
I didn't really like this taster as i found the designing difficult to create and choose a shape that would work, and i found the making side of it a bit boring and repetitive. However i learnt something in that the properties of the material you are using have a huge impact on the way you have to design and create a product.
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