Cardboard Chair
This is the cardboard chair that Robert Schinske, Tony Molloy, and I built. It took a while to get here, but this was the final result.
Attempt 1:
The first thing that we did after recieving the driving question was to design and build a model cardboard chair. This is our model chair. It could hold 100 grams, but its connection points were very shaky. When we tried to build this model, it would not stand straight and we had to cancell this design and start searching for a new one.
The first thing that we did after recieving the driving question was to design and build a model cardboard chair. This is our model chair. It could hold 100 grams, but its connection points were very shaky. When we tried to build this model, it would not stand straight and we had to cancell this design and start searching for a new one.
Attempt 2:
After our first cardboard chair bust, we decided to build a stool. We did this by attatching six squares of cardboard together in a weave-like pattern. Ultimately, this disign also failed and again we needed to make a new chair.
Attempt 3:
We needed the third time to be a charm, and it was. Tony had started to build another chair, this one resembling a reclining chair. It had a back rest and a very sturdy seat. It could hold up to 225 pounds and was pretty comfortable. There were a few downsides though. The back rest and the arm rest were both pretty weak. You could only lean on the back rest so much before it collapsed under your weight. The arm rests did not really work at all. But the thing that mattered most, if you could sit on it, worked.
After our first cardboard chair bust, we decided to build a stool. We did this by attatching six squares of cardboard together in a weave-like pattern. Ultimately, this disign also failed and again we needed to make a new chair.
Attempt 3:
We needed the third time to be a charm, and it was. Tony had started to build another chair, this one resembling a reclining chair. It had a back rest and a very sturdy seat. It could hold up to 225 pounds and was pretty comfortable. There were a few downsides though. The back rest and the arm rest were both pretty weak. You could only lean on the back rest so much before it collapsed under your weight. The arm rests did not really work at all. But the thing that mattered most, if you could sit on it, worked.