1/27/11

Tonight was a a major break because the builders discovered that they could use features of legos to make a better cast. The builders thought that if a cast had hinges, it would be lifted to allow for cleaning of the skin. Likewise, a cast could be removed and cleaned if it was made from legos.

In this first image, Zoe is constructing a working prototype using the hinge design while Miro and Luke work to build a virtual cast using the digital designer.

This image illustrates some new builders, working on building something scary, through the use of their imagination. They struggled at first but were heartened when we explored the incorporation of their imaginations into their builds. This representative reasoning was achieved relatively quickly after a vivid demonstration of using a lego flat piece as a shark fin. The other students immediately grasped the idea that their designs needed only suggest the scary image to be effective and got eagerly to work.

 Zoe shows off the new design, with a hinge.

In this video, Zoe explains why we have addressed the smell and itch problem with our hinge design.