Week 10

Week 10 started of with a very productive Sunday. Marcel and I met up Sunday night and went ahead to implement our idea from the previous week. With no other tool but a Swiss Knife, we had to work with that. It was surprisingly efficient.

We assembled the fork to the axle and attached it to the frame. It was finally beginning to look like a bicycle.We proceeded to make new tires because we realized that our current tires were way to large and not symmetrically round. The front and back fork was to be each consisted of two sets of wheels. Each set of wheels would have 3 pieces of circular cardboard glued together.  This took us over 3 hours but we had music in the background to make it worthwhile.

Fig 1: Bike without wheels

To make sure that our wheels were as similar as possible, we didn't do the final cut with the Swiss knife. We roughly cut it with the knife with intentions to smoothen it out with sand paper during the next open lab.

Fig 2: Roughly cut bike wheels

With all this done, we called it a night and planned to work on it in the open lab period on Monday.