producing

Wedneday morining I made a paper mockup of my apparatus, its much easer to explain what your making when you have a mini version in your hands, and it allowed me to see how the parts would interact where joins would be, proportions and encoraged the chances of having a solid mechanisim since the structal integrity increased greatly in the paper mockup. the new method of using semi circles of steel to increase the size was in effect. and in the afternoon started fabrication of my ball of steel. I was transfixed at the complication of creating a hexagon. which is actualy really simple when i was taught the easy way how. at the end of the day I ended up with the main structure two hexagon with 6 half circles between.

Thursday I built the camera mounting bracket, the ring for the middle to reduce deformation of the sphere. my percived inferior inadequacy of my design by only requiring spot welding was disallusioned by dificultys arisen by multiple class members from the welding. and compliments. maybe im going back into a simplicity phase, abiet one dificulty arises whist trying to weld i have to solve a puzzle trying to get to the joint i want to weld
near the end I took the ball test run.