After an inspiring presentation from James, we were all filled with ideas and inspiration. We had to get all of our ideas on paper to figure out what path we were going to further explore.
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After bouncing ideas of each other, we chose to start with marbles as a starting point in our art machine.
A challenge we came across was figuring out how we could take our grand ideas and put them into a machine consisting of circular and or spinnable objects.
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keywords and ideas that we had during our experimenting.
- circle
- spinning
- obit
- rotate
- magnet
- kenetic energy
- push and pull
- motion
- movement
- machine
- spiral
- endless
- relation to space e.g. altitude