Digital Fabrication for Education

February 2011 Blog Posts (2)

Stanford Wheel of Wonder - Final Revision

by Ryan A and Arne B

This week we finished up “The Wheel of Wonder”. As you might already know it is a ferris wheel. Not only can it rotate, but it can rotate by itself and is controlled by a wireless remote. It also features carts and figures.

We started out last week making a prototype of the ferris wheel in cardboard (which we wrote about here). It turned…

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Added by Arne Bech on February 4, 2011 at 10:00am — No Comments

Stanford Butterfly Car fly to the finish

Interview:

When we brought our child the prototype he immediately recognized it as a butterfly car. We asked him to play with it and he pushed it across the floor. He was excited that he could balance the butterfly car on it's head. The main suggestions he had were to add more wheels and a lined pattern on the wings like in his original sketch, and to add a face to the front. One interesting comment he made was that he was excited that the butterfly car stood up on its wings. He also…

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Added by Jain Kim on February 3, 2011 at 8:26pm — No Comments