• Question: Have u ever built something fantastic?

    Asked by GLENPORT LEGENDS to Ashley, Catherine, John G, Laura, Ray on 12 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: John Ging

      John Ging answered on 12 Nov 2014:

      I’ve built a fan. I guess you could say that was fan-tastic!
      I’ve also built a number of photonic devices (i.e. devices that can pass light from lasers through them and do something useful) and a mini-wind turbine. I’ve also built a hobby model helicopter but it was issues in the wind.

    • Photo: Laura Tobin

      Laura Tobin answered on 12 Nov 2014:

      I’ve built a few things including a small robot out of Lego for fun. I built a few other things that I think are cool but I doubt anyone else would think are cool. Oh my favourite is making my own customised Christmas jumper – I use LED lights (from Penneys), sensors, hot glue gun and lots & lots of Christmas decorations to make amazing jumpers. this year I want to try and make some with conductive thread – this will mean no wires so I can wash my jumpers!

    • Photo: Catherine Conaghan

      Catherine Conaghan answered on 12 Nov 2014:

      I don’t know if they are fantastic but a few that were my favourite doing were a Robot in college, solar powered mobile phone charging system, visit finished the energy app. I also randomly created a program that automatically made personalized posters by asking the user questions about their favourite things.

    • Photo: Ray Alcorn

      Ray Alcorn answered on 12 Nov 2014:

      Sure. See my profile page. I built a full scale wave energy prototype in Australia and it worked.

    • Photo: Ashley Culbert

      Ashley Culbert answered on 16 Nov 2014:

      For my leaving cert construction studies project i built a lathe. I designed it with a bed that could slide out to make large diameter bowls. I put a pair of variable speed pulleys on it to allow the rotation speed to be changed while the lathe was running.

      In college I built a pick and place unit. This was designed to work on a production line to pick items from one conveyor, place it into a machine, and then take it back and put it on a different conveyor. The movements for this were power by pneumatics and I used a programmable logic controller to control the sequence

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