THE WORLD BECOMES YOUR WORKSHOP

 

This picture illustrate the concept of our new mobile workshop very well. While thinking out of the box, was the usual task for the bucky lab students, we will now also build out of the box. This concept allows us to save space during the time we dont build, increasing the flexibility of materials we are building with, and of course flexibility, when the boxes are ready the world becomes our workshop!

picture: Ron Valkenet

 

HETTICH ARCITECH

 

 

We had our last meeting with hettich today before the building weeks, the dutch team from hettich will join us on the end of the first week to build the drawers, having the worlds first parts from their new future proof Arcitech drawer system makes even them exited to apply, and as far as we can see after the meeting today it it was worth to redraw the whole compartments to fit their new system.

 

 

GOOD WEATHER PLEASE

 

We found this foto...lets hope this is a sign that we will melt away next week instead of washed away...so cross fingers, but we have a mobile fridge as also fresh coffee and a roof over our heads ...

 

BUILDING LOCATION READY

 

The faculty is prepared for the building week next week, having a nice central spot between two buildings directly next to our huge glasshouse will become a pretty good place to build. Creating a field workshop in a tent is quiet a challenge, building the new workshop even more because we dont have the toolboxes ready, thats the task of this semester. Its like what was first the egg or the chicken...?

 

MEDIA FACADE PROTOTYPE

 

 

 

a first test with the media facade prototype, a new way of aperture like principle. more infos later

FIRST ASSEMBLY

We ordered a few sets of work horses already last year, 4 arrived directly the other 8 now...to be honest we had hoped that the people in China had enough time to count the nuts before packing...and that there was also enough time to cut all metal parts into the same lenghts...it seems that the PRO label on the boxes is not meant to be used from professionals but that you have to be one assembling them...

So a nice test for us to give our powertools a spin an explain how blind riveting works. And lesson teached: Dont be cheap on tools, you will pay double at the end or what Dr. Bucky Lab always says: "I dont have money to buy cheap tools", we are very pleased that we will also use the Walko system next week.

MOBILE WORKSHOP

A few days before the building weeks everything is developing very fast, it all happens within these days, today the first renderings from Ron Valkenet are finished which he did also for the CAD course within the bucky lab semester.

We actually cant wait to build it next week.

Box no.3 PRECISIO will house our mobile festool table saw

 

Box no.4 TABLE TOOLS will contain all table mounted tools like the bandsaw, a drillpress, a sander and the compressor

 

Box no.5 BUCKY BOX thats the edutainment, kitchen and drawer box to serve the presenter, a sink, a mobile high pressure water system and maybe later also a small fridge...