Stage 6 - Planning Completion of the artefact

RL2

10/02/10

Together as a group we all sat down in the music room and worked out in are timetables the hours we had free and how we can fit everything in to the time limit . This made it much easier as we knew exactly what we could get what done when and were .SM3

17/02/10

We planned to place the acrylic in place to but it went wrong for sophie and i as are black acrylic didnt show up so we could not cut it out on the lazer cutter . So we had to reschedule and cut out the wood for are base on the scroll saw . We did this because we needed to get stuff done so it would be out of the way .

I cut the wood on the lazer cutter and it ended up not being in a straight line so we decided to not use that piece and start again . IE3
And i can now cut wood straight and at the beginning i couldn't and was scared of the machine.

24/02.10 - more problems

The acrylic still had not arrived so sophie and i decided to paint the planets there colour to use the time up wisely . Though not all the colours of the paints we had orderd had arrived so we could only do just under a half of the planets . Knowing we still had plently more time we didnt want to waste it so we decided to paint the dowles to get that done .CT5, CT6

To improve i could plan ahead incase stuff goes wrong like it did so we new what to do straight away.

03/03/10

Using 2D design i created the concentric circles , though it took us many times to get it right . To check that each planet was the right size and would not be touching each other we took a slab of wood and drilled holes in it so the dowles could fit it and made sure they were the correct distance away from each other we did this by using the same size scale as we will be using on the acrylic . IE2

10/03/10

All the plannets are finally decorated and the acrylic has arrived :D !
We got back on 2D design to check the measurments .At the beginning this was really confusing to work and it kept mucking up , so we kept losing it.

I was ok about the size though sophie was not so keen we talked to sir and decied if we made it in halfs then stuck it together we can make it bigger .
we then planned what we would do on are last day of practical .

17/03/10

Today is the last day of practical we had . The concentric circles are now cut out and ready to stick . We double taped them on top of each other making sure they were perfect .(top)