Spaghetti

Today we were told to make a structure out of spaghetti, to hold up three balls. *I chose the rasta balls.*

I  did a few sketches of the structure on my sketchbook and decided, in the limited time and spaghetti , I chose to make this. It was really frustrating at first because the blue tack didn't stick properly, but luckily I'm a person who deals with small stuff and when I get into the zone, I can be really gentle. During this project I've only broken 3 spaghetti sticks, which I still chose to reuse them in other parts. 

Glue gun time, everything went quite smoothly for me when using glue gun, I didn't have any problems with the model apart from the fact that I actually burnt my finger. It was really painful. 

As you can see, it held up the rasta balls pretty well. I really like the way it looks too, reminds me of children's toys. Overall I just think mine is quite simple, I think I need to take some more risks, step out of the safety zone, so I can create something else. 

However, the second part of our project, was to create a barrier so it protects the spaghetti structure from destruction, using a piece of paper. I created a box, I left quite a lot of space between the top of the box and the actual structure, folded some ridges so when objects falls on it, ridges will help divide up the force. 

It was time to check. We used a basketball to check whether our spaghetti structure gets destroyed or not. MINE DIDN'T !! Okay, there might be a LITTLE bent part at the bottom, but it was fixed just by twisting it. I was really glad that I succeeded. I hoped for it to work and it did! This project was quite challenging, because of the fragile spaghetti and the unknown (of the force that the barrier would take). I quite liked this project.