I brought an old mobile phone to use as the electrical product and a bunch of scrap materials including wire mesh, sheet metal, polystyrene, foam and sheets of perspex.
We were firstly instructed to dismantle our electronic product. My phone proved fairly simple to take apart, there were five tiny screws in the back that i needed help from the workshop guys to get out- but then it was in all it's pieces.
Inside was pretty much what I expected to be there. The circuit board was interesting to observe, I would love to know how exactly that makes the phone work?!
NOTE: Must remember proper boots for workshop. Workshop men get very angry.
Together with the other two members on my bench we had a good variety of different materials and pieces. Sara brought an old telephone and Gianna brought a Discman.
Circuit board of the Discman.
We were then instructed to mix various objects and components to attempt to make a behaviour from our creation whether it was a light, sound or movement. Together we found this task overwhelming as it appeared we had no moving parts within our range of dismantled products. So we began to build a cart.
We were then shown by a tutor that if you hold the discman wires to my phone battery you get MOVEMENT! This was most exciting for us to learn as we now had a moving part to throw into our mix.
If we had more time in that class we would of been able to put our moving part to use. Whether it was able to turn an entire object or simply move the material.
I hadn't visited the workshop since First year and it was exciting to be back there with some hands on tasks. I found this weeks tasks very useful- its often easier to learn by seeing for yourself how products work rather then just lectures and research.
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