Meeting 10/10/12¶
Goals
- Figure out our capabilities
- Brainstorm attachment ideas
- Make sure battery stays attached!
Design
- Hopper/"dump truck" filled with liquid chalk or sidewalk paint
- Hopper articulated up/down
- Some sort of tip for delivering chalk to pavement
- Deglobucombulator inside hopper for mixing / breaking up chunks
- Removable hopper for cleaning and refilling
Concerns
- Viscosity of liquid chalk
- Fragility of reattachable tips
- Width of tips
- How to move hopper on and off pavement (fulcrum or up/down)
- Chalking on an incline
Delivery methods
- "Grain hopper" variably sliding door
- One or more paint rollers, ballpoint-pen style, for various line thicknesses
Sidewalk chalk
- DIY from corn starch, food coloring and water/rum
- Crayola Sidewalk Paint
Deglobucombulator inside hopper
- Blender style
- Egg-beater style
- Long screw mixer
For this week:¶
Rachel
Gushen (sp?)
- Build first approximation of hopper and roller out of wood
Peyton
- Look in to hopper manufacturing, e.g. injection molding, carbon fiber, urethane prototyping.
Loading...