Bad news. I won't be posting anything this week, and probably not next week either. I've been busy with a ton of work for finals, and while this project is important to me, I should probably focus more on my schoolwork right now. That isn''t to say I won't be making progress, it just might be slower and less consistent. Looking forward to the summer, I'll have tons of time, and hopefully then I can start working on the actual thing. I'll just have to wait and see.
So you may have noticed I haven't posted any updates since October. That's not because I'm inactive, but it's just that the circumstances have been such that I haven't been able to go in and work on my project. First, it's been getting darker earlier, which makes it hard to go in and work during the day. I get out of school at 3:35pm, and the sun goes down around 5:00pm. This means that by the time I get to FabLab after school to work on my project, I only have about half an hour of sunlight left to work in. Also, I'm currently working on figuring out how to bend pipes, and I don't have all of the tools I need yet. The plan for bending them is to pour hot sand into the PVC piping to make it more pliable, then strap it to a jig to bend it. For that I need something to heat the sand in large quantities, and all I have right now is a small camping stove; so not quite enough. College applications has also taken up a large chunk of my time the last couple of ...
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