Tensegrity Cloud Lamp

we just use clay to make the tree and chopped green styrofoam for the tree. We already make the cloud to put on top of the structure and also painted the bottom box to brown (as a ground)

So I wanted to tried out is it going to work and hold everything if I remove the 2 poles and I did removed it. Magically, it worked! Which is really a real tensegrity structure. We even tried to put something on top of it and it worked it didn’t fall out eventually. 

We got all of our pieces and assemble them together and tried out the tensegrity. We got advised by our lab professor to attached all the pole which originally the tensegrity required only 3 poles. Because he scared that with my pieces 3 poles won’t hold everything. So I tried according to what he told us it worked!

We decided to take the action and print our 3D printed thunderbolt and laser cut our box case.

Luckily, we are able to get our hand on a real pieces tensegrity because one of our professor have them in his office and we asked to have them and understanding the structure. It really help to understand how it really work and all measurement of all the wood should be really precise and the most important part and hold the structure is the middle part (is where I highlighted)

Our first cardboard is abit to big as our case so we created another and we really precise dimension and measurement for each sensors and other equipments.

We decided to cut cardboard to create our prototype case of our project (as a bottom base where we going to put all our equipments like all the sensors and Arduino board and others. 

Got introduced and advised by our supervisor to look into this structure and study about it maybe it can help us to develop a new idea. So then it really help us to develop our idea to a whole new place. We drafted some ideas onto it and focus on how we going to make it look like as an final product.

Since our experiment with electromagnetic energy is not working, we started to move on the plan B. We wanted to keep some original ideas and integrated into the new idea.

Because to make it levitate we need to use and experiment with electromagnetic energy and we search up in YouTube tutorial for it.