…and I’m back!
It’s been a while since the last post. Partly, due to
laziness and partly due to the lack of interesting content to actually post. There
was a short break from Uni and then I had an incident on my way home from Uni
on my bicycle. My second ring finger got squished so hard that the bone at the very
tip forces its way through my skin and found itself sitting just outside the
stop where the last joint is. I took some gruesome photos of it that won’t post
here. Moving on through to what my last project was!
A cardboard chair! The task was to take a large sheet of cardboard,
pre-determined in size, and made a char out of it that could support 80kg. The
rules were simple, nothing but cardboard. No staples, tape or any other foreign
fasteners… only cardboard. It’s definitely not something that hasn’t been done
before, and done to death I don’t doubt.
I tried to focus on making the chair with as fewer separate pieces
as possible to try and draw out as much strength in the material as possible.
The result was two main parts, a seat and a backing, with a number of tiny
fasteners to keep the whole thing together.
The Hexagon shape was inspired by an origami flower that I’d
looked up while trying to figure out the best way to fold the cardboard. I
folded one up out of paper and it seemed to be really strong, especially
considering it was only made from paper at this point. There were way too many
fold to make it out of the cardboard, so instead I came out with a simpler
shape with less folds.
The back followed through just as something that I thought
would be easy to slap on it and everything would be fine. How wrong I was. The
back needed almost just as much strength in it as the seat. This is where it
falls short of being a viable chair solution. For a first effort, I’m
satisfied.
