My Machine _ Play New Games on the Playground

This is a project to show how our machine is going to work.

It is a part in a big process to use the idea of a 11 year old girl and make it reality.

This machine can give a 100 games to children (primary school) to play on the playground.

Like this they never get bored and learn each day a new game. And it is possible to choose the difficulty.

Check out the little movie, this shows you how it works.

1: The body (step 2-7 )

2: The head (step 8)

3: Putting the head on the body (step 9)

4: Decorations (step 10)

We will need:

• 2 big mdf plates of 2 to 1 m (5mm)
• screws (a lot of them)
• big aluminum tube (diameter 50 cm)
• aluminum tape
• grey paint
• 6 hinges
• 2 handles
• 2 little wheels
• 4 beams of wood (4cm by 4 cm)
• acrilic
• L-irons
• small ball
• lasercutter
• disco-lights
• jigsaw
• sandpaper
• drill

The first picture shows you the parts you will need. The other 2 give guidens to my explenation.

• Take the 1.2 pieces and the 1.4 wooden beams

• Secure on each plate 4 wooden beams in a square. It should fit perfectly. (A)

• use screws to secure them but drill a little hole first to avoid splinters from the wood.

• Put one plate with beams to the side (we will use this again in step?)

• Use the other one to build the structure on. (this plate is the bottom one)

• Take pieces 1.5 and put them vertically on each corner of the bottom plate (beams up) (B)

This part is done

• We use the 1.1 pieces.

• On the drawings you see where to cut out the doors on 1.1.2

• And for the little sack on 1.1.1

• Drill a hole and then cut everything with the jigsaw.

• When you cut them out, sandpaper everything (to clean it up a bit)

• Use an extra piece of wood to cut out the feet.

• On the picture you see a shape that we made.

• Cut it out with a jigsaw and sandpaper it.

• Take back the plate we put aside.

• Drill a hole of +/- 51 cm. (First drill a small hole and then jigsaw the big circle)

• Take the big tube. We need to secure this on the top plate.

• Make a box like I show you in picture C.

• Now just slide the tube over the box and screw it with little screws on 2 corners. Like this the tube can’t get loose.

• Slide the top plate over the tube and turn it around. The bigger part of the box stops the tube from falling out

• To make sure it doesn’t fall through when we put it the right way confirm plates under the bigger part of the box. Picture D shows how it looks like.

• Paint every piece of 1: The doors, plates 1.1 (one side), feet, top plate, pieces 1.3.

• Tape the sides of the doors. Do this with shiny aluminum tape.

• And the sides of the feet

• Now we attach the 1.1 plates on the inside structure.

• We do that by placing a row of black screws to enhance the machine feeling

• When the 3 1.1 plates are on the body we can do the back side.

• Use the 1.3 pieces. Put one on top and one on the bottom. Like this there is a space where we can crawl into the machine.

• Use the hinges to secure the doors to the sides. (2 for big door, 1 small door)

• Screw the handles on the upper back plate and the wheels on the lower back plate (like this you can move easily around with the machine)

• Now slide the top plate on the machine it should fit perfectly.

We have our body

• Use 2.1 to make 2 squares like you did on the bottom and top plate (but without the plates)

• Secure them by using L-irons

• Now put the 2.2 beams on top of each corner of one square you made.

• And then secure the other square on top of those four beams.

• Paint this head

We have our head.

• Make 4 holes in the big tube

• Put 2 long aluminium tubes through them

• Let the head rest on those 2 tubes and secure them with glue (2 components)

• A file to laser cut the gears in the head (we did them with acrylic in all sorts of colours)

• The file to laser cut the bow

• We used 3 dog-toy’s to represent our buttons (there you choose de difficultness of the game)

• A piece of fabric for the little sack

• Lamps that show you when the playtime is over. You just tape it on the big tube.

• Hang the gears random in the head with fishing rod.

• Make some eyes, a nose and a mouth and hang them on the right places

• Cut a small ball in two and tape them on the feet.

Like this the Machine is complete