Sponsorship!!!

Many thanks to SONOCO NEW ZEALAND LIMITED for sponsoring us cardboard tubes!!!

Sonoco New Zealand Ltd is a manufacturer and supplier of a range of mainly paper based tubular packaging products. The range includes cardboard tubes, formavoid and formatube construction tubes, composite containers and papersticks. Products can be made to specific customer requirements.

Address:

3 Hickory Avenue, Henderson

Sponsor booklet

Finally its done!!!

Photos of the booklet

Tube Joint System + Trial

Logo!

Flying mechanism trial: leaf blower!

Here's the video of our trial!

handmade paper making: Yellow Pages + Fiber

Structure concepts and models

handmade paper making: newspaper

After the previous experiment, we want to make a real frame. Thanks to the workshop, an A4 size frame was made!! This time, we want to test out the the thickness of paper that we get from different premade paper. We put newspaper into the blender until it turns into extremely fine pulp and you cannot even see the tiny pieces.

 The first paper we made, turned out to be very thin, it was very hard to peel off from the frame. It feels like a  thin handmade hand towel. When we used this to folde our floating object, it floated very well.

We put a thin layer of extra plup on the second paper, it feels abit thicker than the last one

The two of them are folded into the floating objects.

Flying mechanism trial continues..

1. Water hose experiment

2. Balloon POWER!!

First trial was using the air from the balloon to blow off the paper

Second trial was using a carton, it shoots up by the elasticity from the balloon.