Materials and Design

The following Tuesday we collaborated with our progress. I personally struggled with finding how to buy silicon and purchased a silicon sealant to experiment. I immediately noted how sticky the substance was and doubted how this could be moulded to create a wristband. Mum suggested I use it on some baking paper and allow it to set to see if it was less sticky and stronger. I found it to be too brittle and really doubted how appropriate it would be for our model. 

Yoakim had brought some plastic cocktail glasses along which had led's in the base of the glass which became active via the push of a button in the base. He distmantled the base to see the led's and the circuit board. Yoakim also communicated how at the end of last weeks session, he had spoke to Marianella and she had said to steer away from using a standard fish tank in the model or in the design itself. We had a look online at more unique fish tank designs and decided a curved fish tank would be more appealing. Marianella also suggested that it might be better to eliminate water from the tank as it would just be an obstacle in our design and there was no need. Here is an image of influence that we found while researching;