Bad News

Ok, so I guess bad news first.

You weren't there, unless you were, but Tim (our prof.) said to back up your stuff to multiple locations. Well let's just say I learned a hard lesson. I lost my external hard drive which I believe had all my digital models from the next step of the project. I am not sure because there are about 20 different locations on my computer where I could have stashed them while transferring them to my hard drive.

While it is a major bummer, I also lost everything but the final board layouts from last semester's project. So my life isn't going too well.

But I'll keep looking for those digital models.

Anyway... Man I just realized how impossible this post is. I'm making it from my work while we wait for a meeting to start so I thought I would just jump on, say what is going on, and put pictures in later. But honestly it would sound like this...

-We made digital models that I lost the pictures from.
-Then we made different digital models which I don't have the pictures from.
-Then we made models which I don't have the pictures from.
-Then we learned Rhino.

Mmmmm, isn't that just a whole lot of awesome?

Anyway, I'll get on it.

-Travis

A while later

Well.... Yeah. Not been around in a while. A lot's happen
ed. Let me fill you in,

So we went over the models and I got back the comment I was expecting - they all look the same. Tim recommended building another one out of different materials in hopes of changing the feel of the models. It was a good idea but I thought that the next s
tep of the project would make it so I wouldn't have to build another one.

I was wrong.

The next step was to take pictures of the models and pick five of them that were the "best." It was left up to us to figure out which ones were the best. Anyway the photos came out nice and quite interesting.

But Tim was going to choose three for us to turn into digital models and only the first and second one passed the test. So back to the drawing board.

I really didn't want to go rummaging through trashcans for meterials and I REALLY didn't want to spend money on these models so I just grabs what I had laying around my room that would make an interesting model that was unlike anything I had built yet. So what I had laying around my room was a balloon animal kit.

So yeah.

The models came out rather fun even though the balloon model looked a lot like a balloon model...

Anyway. I'll post the models later.

-Travis