Craft Design and Technology

It started with an ambitious idea.

I was going to build my very own R2 D2.

After a term I ended up with...

... a waste paper basket with a car headlight glued on top of it.

Mr Osier, the CDT teacher, was very proud...
( SpankyHanky, Thu 5 Feb 2009, 13:45, 4 replies)

My CDT project...

Was a crossbow.

Fully operational with heaving death-giving abilities.

It was graded 'B', then promptly confiscated for ever.

fucksocks
( Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Thu 5 Feb 2009, 14:18, closed)

Oooh!
So was mine!

Head teacher claimed "first shot" and pointed it at a dartboard tacked to the school observatory.

As we couldn't find the projectile he thought he'd missed until we went round to the other side of the wooden building (whole thing was about 12' square) and found a bloody great splintered exit hole.

I didn't get to take that particular project home.

I got an 'A' though.
(Captain Placid 24/7 ball gags, brownie mix and clown porn, Thu 5 Feb 2009, 15:12, closed)

Bath water level detector for the blind
I made a bath water level detector for the blind. Everyone tried to tie in disability to their projects, in order to up their grades a bit.

In the end though the bath water level rose, the alarm went off, and the whole thing drowned in the bath. I filed it down on the sander until it was a beautiful pendant.

Grade C.
( browser still relating boring anecdotes into a void on, Thu 5 Feb 2009, 14:32, closed)

I did a beautifully designed remote controlled door
for a "female nightshift worker who lives in the country and is scared of being raped in the dark".
The rape reference got a few funny looks, as did my claim to have designed the radio transciever circuit. They didn't accept my explaination that I'd written "Velleman" on the front as a tribute to the Maplin-fodder electronics-kit makers...

Edit: Check out the R2 Builders Guild somewhere on the web. They've got plans and everything!

It did end up working quite nicely in the end- grossly overcomplicated (electropneumatic actuators all over the place as "safety interlocks", a completely uneccesary microcontroller "for safety and security- and also allowing integration with home alarm systems", twice as many double acting cylinders as required and doors made from some A4 paper and duct tape.
( uberdeity Wondered why Owen Lars knew of the term "hell" on, Thu 5 Feb 2009, 14:38, closed)