User:Aaron

THE CONCEPT

Aaron Boot
Spatial Design
aaron.boot@hotmail.com
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Image ONE (the moment I knew what I wanted to do)

The Walt Disney concert hall - Frank Gehry - 2003
I love to make sculptures but Frank Gehry has inspired me to choose for Spatial instead of Autonomous because he make sculptural buildings with a lot of movement and energy in it. Truly fascinating in my eyes.

Image TWO (my background)

My creative background has deep roots by the flower parade from Zundert(biggest dahlia corso in the world) I have build the floats for over 9 years but since last year I am a designer of one of the twenty floats. Here you see the maquete for this year and the full scale float from last year.

Image THREE (topic of interest)

The coral landscape and the movement of them have brought my by Ora Ito he inspired his wallpaper on the sole of Reebok sneakers. He loved the way the sole bends and creates a moving landscape. He has tried to capture that movement in one piece of special acrylic. This quarter I want to actually let the wallpaper move.

Image FOUR (medium)

MAKING A MOLD (for the membrane)

I have chosen to make a coral landscpae istead of the wallpaper of Ora Ito beacause I think the corals have an even nicer and a more various lanscape than Ora's wallpaper.

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  Step 1 - make a landscape (relievo) you want, this is going to be your "positive" form

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  Step 2 - cover your relievo in acrilic one (an artificial plaster) or just plaster

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  Step 3 - repeat step 2 but dont forget to stronger your mold (with fiberglass)

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  Step 4 - repeat step 3 so your mold can be positioned in a stable postion so you can work better with it in a later stage

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  Step 5 - get your positive form out of your mold so you get a "negative" relievo which is your final mold

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  Step 6 - here you have your mold (negative) cover your mold in a mold release agent so you can get your print out

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  Step 7 - cover the mold in the chosen fluid (latex, silicone, etc.)

TESTING

I have first tested a technical option out of knex. In the movie you see a membrane out of elastic fabric.

The mechanics of the test. I was very glad with the visual outccome of this test. But I thought that it also could work in another way. Because the latex membrane had a lot of projections so the wheels wont ride smooth over the membrane.

Test 1: Membrane of high elastic fabric https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=md2VDZHLkGw&feature=youtu.be '

FINAL IDEA

By this principe the membrane is pushed from below so the mehanics won't stuck in the membrane. This principe would be 12x repeated.

FINAL PRODUCT

Moving landscapes is an project inspired on the natural movement of landscapes and industrialisation. Both combined result in an fun piece for at exhibitions or as an art piece in your own house. Landscapes and technique have one thing in common, they are constant changing. So my machine is also never the same, the crankshafts are constant moving (and they can be set in another position so the work changes). The landscape on top is also never for the eye the same. Because the movements move to fast for our eyes to follow.

Here a link to the video of my piece: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nl9NyjqGYL8

LAB

MEASURING VOLT, RESISTANCE & CURRENT

Measuring Voltage

3,15V

Measuring calculate Resistance

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  Resistor 1

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  Resistor 2

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  Resistor 3

serie resistance

R1+R2+R3= 109,20 Ohm 10.000+330+100.000= 110,33 Ohm

parallel resistance

De totale weerstand met 2 weerstanden = 500 Ohm 1000:2= 500 Ohm - dit komt omdat hij het aantal weerstanden deeld op de weer De totale weerstand met 3 weerstanden = 333 Ohm 1000:3= 333 - dit komt omdat hij het aantal weerstanden deeld op de weer

Mesuring Current

I=11,18 A

MAKING A CIRCUIT (Etching a Printed Circuit Board)

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  Step 1 - print your circuit on a plate of copper

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  Step 2 - etching the copper plate

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  Step 3 - I was to early in getting the plate out of the etching bath, soo my copper plate was failed

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  Step 4 - on another good circuit I have solder the componets

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  Step 4 - the final stage was putting the battery and speaker on so I could test the circuit

And the circuit worked quite well!! Here the video of it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JL7ga9qnNs

Refrences

Tom Verbruggen|toktek

Module #1 (2009) Handmade 4 Step sequencer. Able to transmit 4 midi notes, wireless.

Tom Verbruggen makes the mechanical part an esthetic artwork, I love the way he displayed the machine.
My idea is that I would like to make the mehanical visual and esthetic good looking.
http://www.toktek.org/Site/Module_1.html

Reuben Margolin|Pentagonal Wave

The Pentagonal wave is a similar visual stategy as I use, in my eyes he has made a beautiful landscape out of cilinders on a string.

https://www.reubenmargolin.com/waves/Pentagonal/pentagonal_video.html