This week, I modeled the final part of the rollercoaster, the chair. I also modeled the rails about halfway. I'll model the second half of the rails (the supports), next week. I'm also hoping to model some different sections of rail as well. I'm working on figuring out a way to work on the actual thing this summer. I'm a little worried that it'll be rusty—but we'll just have to see. Also, found out how to render things in Blender, which you can see below.
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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