Today we starting building our NIME (still nameless as of yet). Last Tuesday we went on a shopping spree at Home Depot (courtesy of Meredith's father's gift certificate) and staked out the plumbing isle for a period of about two hours. After playing around with various pieces, we started to build our basic structure with 3/4" plumbing pieces: tees, couplers, reducing couplers, elbows, and of course, nipples. The Home Depot employees alternated between amused and horrified at our structure, and they didn't even get to see it in all its glory (as shown here). After assembling the pieces we bought, we've decided it's a little too tall, so the next implementation will be about a foot shorter. We have four large white funnels that will be attached to the four tees on the ends of the top branch-like structures. Also, in the model, each of the four handles are each attached to the main pole with a tee, but we just discovered the existence of the cross (the plumbing kind, not the Jesus kind) that should eliminate the need for four tees (and also then reduce the height). As of right now, we're still trying to figure out how exactly to make the base - possible some sort of modified lazy susan. Whatever we use will have to be heavily weighted to keep the whole thing stable -- it's heavy! When we meet this coming Tuesday, we hope to have a lazy susan to start working with. We've also placed online orders for rubber bouncy balls, marbles, wooden balls, and ping pong balls, which have started to arrive this week.
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
8' of Steel Plumbing
Today we starting building our NIME (still nameless as of yet). Last Tuesday we went on a shopping spree at Home Depot (courtesy of Meredith's father's gift certificate) and staked out the plumbing isle for a period of about two hours. After playing around with various pieces, we started to build our basic structure with 3/4" plumbing pieces: tees, couplers, reducing couplers, elbows, and of course, nipples. The Home Depot employees alternated between amused and horrified at our structure, and they didn't even get to see it in all its glory (as shown here). After assembling the pieces we bought, we've decided it's a little too tall, so the next implementation will be about a foot shorter. We have four large white funnels that will be attached to the four tees on the ends of the top branch-like structures. Also, in the model, each of the four handles are each attached to the main pole with a tee, but we just discovered the existence of the cross (the plumbing kind, not the Jesus kind) that should eliminate the need for four tees (and also then reduce the height). As of right now, we're still trying to figure out how exactly to make the base - possible some sort of modified lazy susan. Whatever we use will have to be heavily weighted to keep the whole thing stable -- it's heavy! When we meet this coming Tuesday, we hope to have a lazy susan to start working with. We've also placed online orders for rubber bouncy balls, marbles, wooden balls, and ping pong balls, which have started to arrive this week.
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