Day 10: (Thu Feb 13, Week 5) Small Winch Rigging Workshop¶
Notes for 2025-02-13.
New Assignments¶
New assignment due Tuesday: please prepare a brief pitch for a specific location and project you’d like to develop. You may refine one of your previous ideas or choose a new one. Please include several detailed sketches showing a visual representation and be prepared to explain your idea. Please post your sketches as images or slides in Exercise 6 Shared Folder.
On Tuesday we will reach tentative commitment on project goals and settle pair and group assignments.
Agenda¶
Introduction to the equipment:
C-stands
fishing line
counterweights and eyebolts
sample code: StepperScript.ino
objectives:
improvise a fabric system which moves under motor power
gain experience with capstan drive
experiment with counterweighting and rigging
possible solutions:
single-ended counterweighted drive
loop drive
variable-slip drive
horizontal or vertical
motor script programming