this blog is dedicated to the Bucky Lab from the TU Delft faculty of Architecture. Within the mastercourse we design, develop and at the end build architecture and building construction related prototypes. Its a "get your hands dirty" approach in which the students learn how to translate concepts from sketch into working prototypes. We try to live the spirit of buckminster fuller: what ever you can imagine, you can also build!
Thursday, March 21, 2013
SEWING TO ITS EXTREME
You know, we love professional tools, and when it comes to sewing there is nothing stronger than an industrial sewing machine build to last and able to sew even elephant skins together...
We got a nice donation from Guillaume Janssen, a Pfaff1445 jumper foot sewing machine with Puller. We still struggle a bit with this 380V compressed air supported beast, that weights nearly 100kg. Nothing you like to call mobile at all...but beeing placed on an electric pullcar this already become more mobile.
I assume we will bolt it on a euro palett and call it the most heavy mobile sewing machine, maybe we should permanently bolt it to the car directly ?
Lets see if we are able to make the best out of it. Thanks a lot to Guillaume Janssen for this lovely piece of equipment!