A deep breather

Hmm.

Well some good progress today: I managed to finish up the majority of the form of my VI PDA model. I had consulted Jeremy Sun (my supervisor) who suggested some alterations to the (I'm not kidding) 6th edition of my PDA design.

It was kind of iffy as to how much I could do today because I was largely distracted by the thought of having to hand up vincent's packaging stuff by Friday. Turned out later that we only had to hand it in come Monday. Cool.

I had bought the neccessary kapaline and mounting board in preparation for the making of Vincent's packaging, which I will definitely finish before saturday ends. The moment I entered the shopping arcade to buy the two items, something at the back of my mind was nagging at me, telling me to wait, but I guess that if I had waited any longer I would have clean forgotten all about it =X

Okay back to my VI model.

okay, the thing is, my VI model comprises of a very organic shape which has to be sculpted out of cibatool (God knows if there's any other wood-based material known to mankind which is more expensive than this) and then sanded down to a smooth finish. The final model has to look very close to the final product, complete with paint and detailing.

When I first fully comprehended the requirements required of us, I almost screamed. In fact I silently screamed in my brain because I know people would have stared, but I guess they were all thinking the same thing, and we eventually settled for a low, sustained groan.

Today in the workshop was a haze of sawdust, tripping over metal wire (the year 1s were working on their lighting project), wearing a pair of plastic protection goggles to protect myself agaist (what else) cibatool dust. I started work at roughly 10am, and I produced what I finally intended to produce (at this stage) at 12:40 pm. I was glad.

Second bit of good news is that I no longer need to have Pro-E on my mind! Wahaha.. I went in there, started up the com (took like 10 minutes for the darn thing to finally prompt me to log in) and consulted Garry on my previous Retro-radio design. After I did the neccessary modifications, I was out of there barely an hour into the class.

The bad thing at the back of my head came through when I took the bus back home: my mounting board and kapaline were both soaked due to the rain when I was waiting for the bus and also when I walked back home. The two bits are still drying because I didn't want to use a hair dryer for the danger of melting the foam in the kapaline board.

I'll try to work on the dimensions of Daniel's webcam accompanying earpiece now... and I guess I'll get right to it!


Cheers,

Crawldaddy