Creative Playground

To appreciate the process and what goes on in my crazy head

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Solo dance JT 

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All together 

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The dance 

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The Show

After stitching JT up he was ready to learn how to vogue and show his friends how to dance to El Jarabe Tapatío 

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Rocky ride to the show

JT and I where ready to join the show and we hoped in my bicycle, sadly we had a little accident and some parts of JT broke. When I arrived at the show I had to fixed it. Luckily I had my glue gun with me. 

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The Code

This was the last code. The one that brought JT to life in the show. 

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The birth of JT

After many hours of working and some 1st degree burns with the glue gun JT came to life and was ready to learn how to vogue. 

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New challenges

The magnets where too strong and heavy so the motor I crated to spread the wings could not lift them up. I was running short on time so I had to kill my darling and just let the wings be straight form the beginning. On 

Now I had to crated the final look of the bird. 

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The wings II

The magnets arrived and I could finally test out my idea (very bad on my side on the time management and now I know I should have ordered the magnets earlier) 

In order for the magnets to work I needed thicker straws and a strong base so they could stay rigid after the first wing spreading movement. 

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Challenges II

The wings I ideated where to heavy, so in worst case scenario I had to get rid of the magnets. 

But I was not going to give up, so I ordered the magnets and started working intently

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The wings

After having both of my mechanisms working (in a very basic way) and all the parts to construct the bird in place I could start working on the wings. 

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I was not getting far with the wings and I needed to keep constructing the body to be on time. So I started improvising. 

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Solving problems

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Trying to see if the mechanism still worked 

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The body (prototype)

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Creating the body (sketches)

After buying another access port I could keep working and testing the codes. Next was crating the outline of the body of the bird. Many things had to be taken into consideration for this step, like the most efficient way to cover the mechanism but also allow the bird to have movement. Or how to make it look like a bird. 

Many challenges arose in this step because the workshops where saturated, so I decided to use recycled bottles of water (that I was consuming like crazy because of the heat) to construct the body and also not waste so much and scale down my ecological footprint. My bird was going to be ecological as well. I could have gotten some wood or metal the weeks after but my bird needed to be light and stable things that the plastic of my bottles could offer. 

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Bad Luck

This time I was going to work on the wings and making the mechanism work with the solutions I gathered and when I was about to try the out one of my cables got stuck in the access port and broke inside, I tried many different things to get it out, but I couldn't so I had to buy a new one. 

In the meantime I kept coding