Preliminary Design Analysis
Friday when presenting in front of the class, I had believed that I had settled on a project that I was going to focus my time and energy. This was of course a silly thought. I hadn't spent much time redesigning the concept or putting it through the mental ringer. When I was questioned about the ambition of the design and what I wanted to obtain from the project, my faith in the wind powered buffalo sculpture had started to fade. As quickly as my faith was being loss, I found faith in a new design. One of the professors suggested using a bicycle to power the sculpture and jokingly I said how about I incorporate the bike on the buffalo for people to ride on.
Well here I am! I threw out the calculations for trying to get this piece moving with the wind and made it more interactive. The user will sit on a bike on the back of the buffalo and through pedaling the piece will make the legs move on the animal. Why hadn't I thought of this before? I was blinded by the goal of getting something shaped up and shipped out I suppose.
Good thing I was pretty much settled on using Theo Jansen's mechanism concept to give my work a natural animal movement in a simple way. The only difference now is incorporating room for a person to sit on the buffalo to get this thing moving.
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