An 'i' printing Machine

So Lara and I were making our machine print the letter 'I' and yes we were both pretty relieved at the start of the project to be given this letter. Yet having been initially briefed all that came into my head was ' f*ck', I really am not mechanically minded and I was pretty sure Lara was in the same boat. Despite this we are both pretty similar minded, we both were prepared to work to find a solution, however long it took!
So we brainstormed, ideas and ideas and ideas flew into our heads onto paper, drawings, fiddling about with junk. We certainly were not short of ambition and imagination, it was the later mechanical aspect of the project which caused the major hurdles. After day one I left the studio thinking I was stupid, I had wasted time, why couldn't I come up with something.... etc and looking around the room that day hadnt helped this later thought. Nevertheless the two of us kept coming up with ideas, talking and talking about it, clearly we had something. The next day wasn't much better although we came up with the basis of the idea, we found a frame we wanted to work with and a wheel. At this point the problem I felt was we both kept flipping with ideas, trying to think of the perfect idea or how we could put all our ideas together which slowed us down, on the plus we were thorough!! That evening I also came across a light, I set myself up in the garage, playing around with how it could print. God knows why I decided this could work but bringing this 10 ton light 'thing' into Chelsea the next day seemed to help us put our previous ideas together- thank the lord!!! Despite the initial panic we had both had, we both seemed to be pretty determined and I think fingers crossed we have a decent machine... lets hope it doesn't let us down on friday! I think maybe with a few sound effects and targets added it may not even look that bad- quite hansom!!!!!!

Some images of it in progress!!

No doubt I will post the final outcome later on... well worth waiting for!!!!!!