Friday, July 18, 2008

Food for Thought

Hello Cluster 2,

As we enter the second half of the program and move into group work with kinetic sculptures, I thought I would give you some websites to inspire and also some online tools that might help.


Dr. Delson mentioned Laser Sailboats as a good example of a successfully realized design concept. The idea was to build a high performance sailboat that was easy to transport and reasonably affordable for the masses. The link to the site is:
http://www.lasersailing.com/disp/uk/home/introduction

He also mentioned the famous "skunkworks"...here is a link to learn more:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skunk_works

Here are some more links to companies that are related to aerospace engineering, fast electric cars and robot dogs:
http://www.avinc.com/
http://www.teslamotors.com/
http://www.bostondynamics.com/

In addition, KJ let me know about two cool (and free) resources that might be helpful to you as you work on your clock web pages. Google Sketchup ( http://sketchup.google.com/ )is a 3D rendering program and NVU ( http://www.nvudev.com/index.php ) is a webpage development tool. Thanks KJ!

If you find useful tools or websites please let me know or post them in your blogs.

By the way - awesome blogs - keep up the good work!

Mr. Park

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