February 3, 2012

• Learned about gears
  • Having the right pressure angle & pitch diameter
• Deadline: mechanism drawings due Fri 2/10
• Updated wiki

February 8, 2012

• Group Meeting to Solidify idea for music box
• We changed our idea from NYC Subway to Cooper Union tuition
• General Layout
  • Due to the deficit, one building, Foundation or NAB must close
  • Art and Engineering student duel to determine which school closes
  • Engineering student wins, so Foundation Building falls
  • Engineering building falls shortly after since Cooper cannot exist without either
• Plan out drawings for music box

February 9, 2012

• Group Meeting to Review and finalize drawings
• Drawings will be uploaded
• Review movements of mechanisms
  • Artist and engineer moving in circles close to each other
  • Buildings will drop at appropriate times with different sized (Pacman?) gears
  • Bloody head hinging over with string attached
  • Changing signs/background

February 10, 2012

• Met again to review & rehash our “tuition troubles” concept
• New direction: our automata will be displayed as a plea for donations to Cooper Union

February, 13, 2012

• Group Meeting to revise and finalize idea
• New idea
• Finalized drawings and gear mechanisms (uploaded)

February 22, 2012

• Group meeting to discuss gear mechanism due 2/24
• Prepared SolidWorks file of “Pacman” gear

February 23, 2012

• Group meeting to finalize “Pacman” gear mechanism
• Lasercut the pieces and assembled the mechanism (picture uploaded on the main page)

February 29, 2012

• Group meeting to conceptualize and finish “Hat-begging” mechanism