Joe Swann

Final assembly renders

Well it is nearly the end of our second semester and it is now time for our final project. Because of the way our course has worked out this year we have decided to take these last four weeks and use them to complete a second ‘phase’ of our last two studio projects. The first of these projects was called ‘Imaginandi’ and the result was a product that could be created (more or less) with todays technology. This was not quite in line with my original intentions, rather it turned into a kind of excorsism of an internal demon that told me there should be a way to make a flying car that is both practical and attractive. Now that I have completed that goal I feel I can return to the project and take it in a more creative and fanciful direction with more input from fanciful contexts that do not exist in our present zeitgeist.

To do this I will return to the point at which I departed from that line of questioning in this project and continue much the way I intended to in the first place.

I am not going to lie about this, I was quite disappointed in the final result of my animatronics assignment. So disappointed infact that I won’t be posting the final video up on this blog any time soon. Because of the amount of effort and time involved in getting to that point however, I am determined to give it the time it deserves and create something different. To this end Hanan and I have decided to buy a new Arduino Mega and program our hexapod robot to move in a lifelike way.