3D Design Rotation Week 1- Spaghetti Structure

On our third and final day of the 3DD pathway we were asked to create a structure which would support 3 balls without them touching eachother or the table using only spaghetti and glue guns.
This project as particularly tedious when trying to fuse together pieces of spaghetti with the hot glue running within burning distant of our fingers! However, it was a very fun task, and although not my favourite I learnt a lot about designing a product before making it. The importance of sketching initial ideas rather than jumping straight into the task allowed me to think in detail about my structure and create something which would meet the specifications given

As a class, there were some very interesting and almost unbelivable designs

 

The second part of this task then related back to the paper manipulation of the first and second days in which we had to create a casing for our spaghetti structure in order to protect it from a basketball and also a rather heavy plastic cutting matt.

It is safe to same my casing was not strong enough to resist both forms of destruction, I could have improved by using a more structurally sound design, as opposed to the layering on top of my original structure