What's goin' on? Crunch time. Sort of. Not really. Every semester, my fellow students freak out and complain about all the work the end of classes brings, and every semester I find it to be the same amount of work that I've had for the past several months. So really, what's going on? The usual.
I spent all of Saturday building a bottom for the broken couch I'm using for the current mock-up. It originally had springs as the bottom, which I removed, tacked on boards of MDF, screwed on support beams, and then screwed on the MDF boards. The result was able to support my weight, but I worry that it won't handle one full Jan (a unit of mass equal to approximately 250lbs. It varies on the season).
I spent all of Saturday building a bottom for the broken couch I'm using for the current mock-up. It originally had springs as the bottom, which I removed, tacked on boards of MDF, screwed on support beams, and then screwed on the MDF boards. The result was able to support my weight, but I worry that it won't handle one full Jan (a unit of mass equal to approximately 250lbs. It varies on the season).
I then lined the newly-created trough with a large polyethylene swath and spent all of Sunday filling it with batches of the new material. I have yet to come up with a name for the stuff. Maybe Oober (Oobleck+Flubber)? Sounds like Über? I didn't heat seal this polyethylene; instead I used industrial strength duct tape. My thinking is that the Oober doesn't separate and doesn't leak liquid. At the same time, the heat sealing caused breakages in the polyethylene. So far the tape is working fine.
Checklist
Accomplished:
An experiment that didn't fail!
Working on:
Adding to said experiment
Presentation for faculty critique
To do:
Faculty critique
First draft of thesis
An experiment that didn't fail!
Working on:
Adding to said experiment
Presentation for faculty critique
To do:
Faculty critique
First draft of thesis