Friday, December 23, 2016

Building Weeks Day 10 - clean up

while we are cleaning the shop, bringing home our pressios prototypes and getting ready for the holidays we close our activities with a few pictures of yesterday ...

Happy holidays and a happy new year !








Thursday, December 22, 2016

Building Weeks Day 9 - Bucky Lab Borrel

The second to last day in the workshop is always the most busiest ...while some are still fighting to finish their project ( all did, except a few last assembling tasks ) others already build furnitures and other little things for their homes or even beloved ones for christmas...of course its the last time the students are able to put their hands on the tools ...

Thanks to Veerle and Guido we now have our coffee cart also fully equipped with a nice set of drawers, we got a nice lecture about surfboards ...and the price for the best coffee mugs is also set ...isnt it ?

As carved in stone, its also the day to celebrate an exciting period, long days and even better projects - our bucky lab borrel - the casual party with friends and sponsors. So the usual for our event: chilled beer and hot dogs ...












Wednesday, December 21, 2016

Building Weeks Day 8 - Details

the last entire day ...and most of the prototypes are done ...perfect timing, so a few details today.

What have we learned today ? Quite a lot about jacks ...these little helpers that will lift up your car to change a tire ...

1. Hydraulic jacks don't work in a horizontal position
2. spindle jacks are designed to push cars up, in the pulling direction they will fail ...

Never the less we managed it and the project looks promising ... we will share this later !














Tuesday, December 20, 2016

Mannequin Challenge - doing nothing for 3 minutes

following a current online trend we asked filmmaker Hans de Jonge from Oculus film to shoot a Mannequin Challenge in our workshop, for him a welcome occasion to test new gear and for us the most challenging minutes in the workshop ...

doing nothing, but have a look for yourself


Building Weeks Day 7 - Faces

Day 7, more and more project are nearly done and even the cold can't harm us any more. Casper joined us today and was impressed about the progress. Yes, our students worked really hard ! While the smell of fresh brewed coffee is noticeable a light hint of spray paint and burned wood infuses the workshop. Only the music on the radio makes us aware that we are short before christmas...

Today no projects, no tools but faces ...we got not every student in front of the camera but here a few ones we already got ....





















Monday, December 19, 2016

Building Weeks Day 6 - Weird Tools

And here we go again, day 1 of the second week and the projects really move forward. Everywhere in the shop the students are busy and the first project is already done.

Actually the camera wasn't used that much, so only a few impressions of today...