3 November 2015
(Hand)work in progress: day 4
Today I finished the wheel and it work…ed. Unfortunately, the bolts on which I sticked the skateboard wheels resulted too weak as soon as I tried it a few times and they started to bend slightly, impeding any further rotation of the wheel.
For this reason I decided to replace these bolts M8 with a threaded rod M10 which would…
29 October 2015
(Hand)work in progress: day 1
Today, at only 6 days from the Final Postgraduate Show I started building the wheel. I had to wait for the wood to be cut with the Waterjet, but most of all I couldn’t really start the construction before, the complete wheel would have been too big to be stored anywhere for a long period.
The first steps have been…
8 October 2015
Renders
Here are two renders representing the complete structure of the wheel with the various connections.
The next challenge is to actually build it, I wish I could just 3D print this……