First Day of Class

      Today our class received our first project of the semester, the beginnings of which can be seen above. This is a small model of a dinosaur skeleton that our project group will be eventually replicating at a much higher scale and quality.
      Working with this small model gave us a little insight as to what challenges may be presented while recreating this piece. For instance, some of the existing joints between the parts have not been cut very evenly, which caused some of the skeleton to line up imperfectly. One of the pieces for the skull is too wide to fit between two adjacent pieces, so that will have to be redrawn in CAD before we make the next iterations of this dinosaur.Some of the pieces also could stand to have their joining positions moved around a little bit, for the sake of sturdiness. Notice how I'm holding the model where the rear legs should be.
      Anyways, we will continue to tweak the model as necessary, and it should yield a pretty nice final result. The dinosaur will be much larger, having been milled out of at least one 4x8 sheet of plywood, and will be painted. With racing stripes. Maybe.