Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Bug Development

Since getting a rather interesting clockwork bug a few years ago at a wonderful museum in Amsterdam, I have been looking at variations of it and developing ideas based around it.
most notably this has led to the Scuttlebug / Clockbug which looks like this and I have delivered as a project to over 500 students and their Teachers / TA's in the past three years.

But recently I have started experimenting with springy wire and other bits and I am now in the fourth idea and starting to fine tune the materials and make sure it is a bullet proof project.
This image was created in Sketchup... of course!


The first three versions were complete failures, hopefully this will be better...