Makerspace – SpinBots

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I just have an image of the spinbots that I played with as my attempts at uploading the video of the bots while they were spinning has failed. However, in this image you do see the spinbot in action, somewhat blurred due to its fast motion.

I had a very interesting experience at the makerspace. I played with the play dough and created the external circuit board to operate the keys of the laptop and play games and music using that. I also tried my hand at creating something using the lego pieces. The amazing lego art created by other classmates were almost intimidating. There was a lot of action going on with the legos and the origami. I loved a lot of pieces created using the origami art.

However, I chose to spend more time playing with the spin bots as I found them very intriguing. They somehow reminded me of some kind of game or a piece of art I had seen being play or created as a child. All the way long back when I was about six or seven years old I had seen someone I know created complex star-like patterns using repeated circular lines on paper. I hoped to somehow recreate a complex pattern using the spinbot. With not so much success at it I was able to create a lot of colorful and complexly intertwined circles.

It was a very interesting experience. I would really have liked to ask someone to teach me how to make the origami art. It has always fascinated how people create such complex shapes with a flat object as paper. Maybe, someday I will teach myself looking at all the tutorials that there are out there.