Cardboard Questions

1. What is corrugate cardboard?

- A paper-based material consisting of a fluted corrugated sheet and one or two flat linerboards.

2. How is corrugated cardboard made?

- The pieces that make up the corrugated cardboard are crimped inside the machine. The machine then takes the liners and glues them to either side of a piece of corrugated cardboard.


 3. What is the primary raw material used to make cardboard?

- Fast-growing pine trees provide the primary raw material used to make corrugated cardboard.


4.  How many cubic yards of landfill space can be saved by recycling 1 ton of cardboard?

- 3 cubic yards of landfill space. 


5. How many trees can be saved each year if each household used 1 roll of recycled paper towels?

 - 544,000 trees each year. 

BrainStorming

-What makes a successful chair?
Foundation, size, shape, right materials, good direction, know how to make it, and having the right legs and base for it.

- How do chairs fail?
By not having the right materials, not having a stable chair, not having good directions, and not knowing what you are doing.

- What is important to include into the chair's design?
A stool

- Where will your chair be located? Who will be sitting in it at that location?
My chair will be located in a professional lobby. The people that will be sitting in it will be business people.

- What would you change about your design if you were to build a real chair?
I would change the stand on my design to make it more stable for any size people.

- What would happen if you built your chair without a prototype first?
You will have nothing to go by. What if you mess your built design because you did not create a prototype to help you out to build your final. Last but not least not having a prototype,it will mess up your idea and outcome.

Materials for the Chair

Cardboard box

Yard stick

Utility knife

3mm corrugated board
(alternatives - corrugated polypropylene, plywood/leather)
2 layers of corrugated board around the object,
except seat (5 layers) and back (4 layers in the upper part)
with grooves going in perpendicular directions (vertically and horizontally).
price of the cardboard prototype - about 3$ including glue.
testing. 3 prototypes were thoroughly tested at several parties (see photos).
3 protos were easily put in a luggage boot of a compact car.

Instructions on how to build the Chair

1

Open the cardboard box so it lays flat, then measure it. You want the box to be at least 45 inches wide and 60 inches high.

2

Place the cardboard in front of you in a vertical layout. Use the bottom edge of the flattened box as the bottom side of a rectangle that is 45 inches long and 15 inches high. Draw the rectangle, then draw dividing lines inside it at 15-inch intervals to make three 15-inch squares.

3

Extend the lines up from the middle square in Step 2 an additional 45 inches. Divide it into three 15-inch squares. Finish by drawing a horizontal line at the top of the third square. You should have a T-shaped drawing, made of a total of six 15-inch squares.

4

Cut out the T-shape and turn it so it looks like an upside down T. Fold back the two squares that "cross" the T until they touch each other behind, forming a triangle. Rotate the cardboard so the triangle sits on the ground. This is the base of your chair.

5

Fold down the cardboard that now sticks straight up, so it sits on the triangle and is parallel with the ground. The square sitting on top of the triangle is the seat. Fold the last two squares at a 90-degree angle, so they stick straight up.

6

Press the top square down so that it forms a double-thick chair back. Use whatever means you like to secure the fold. What was once a cardboard box is now a chair. Have a seat.

Reflection on each Link

1. Cardboard is cheap/free, recyclable, strong, and if treated well, very durable. It can be fastened with glues or mechanical fasteners, and readily takes a few coats of polyurethane to create a harder, more durable finish. Most of these chairs were made from 100% waste cardboard. Cardboard dumpsters are plentiful on college campuses, especially behind cafeterias. Other good scavenging sites are big-box stores, strip malls, and appliance stores. You'll want to gather the flattest, biggest contiguous sheets you can find, mostly free of tears, water stains, and other weak spots. The other key is a box cutter and a lot of patience. Many people have never attempted to build their own furniture because they feel it would be too difficult or too expensive to make anything worthwhile. In this video segment from zoom, a yound designer named Nick demonstrates his process for designing and constructing attractive, sturdy chairs from cardboard. A good structural design begins with a problem and a concept of how to solve the problem.


2. Decide how to hold up the weight of a person. One very popular way is to fold cardboard into triangle columns with the open air spaces facing down toward the ground and up toward the seat of the chair. You can also support weight by coiling cardboard with the corrugation facing top to bottom as with the triangle columns. Alternatively you can use very small boxes that are stacked, although this may not be desirable because of the comparatively large open space inside the boxes. Remember, the key is very small open spaces, including corrugation. These supports can be attached with glue or tape, or they can poke through the seat with cardboard pegs through the supports underneath. However, in order to fulfill its intended goal, a design must do more than just solve a problem. In the history of engineering, countless ideas have failed because of poor planning, poor execution, or both. The engineering design process involves many important steps. One of the first is to clearly determine the function that a structure must serve.


3. You can create an environmentally friendly chair out of a large cardboard box in just a few minutes. This pattern makes a simple side chair with a straight back, which is sturdy enough to support an average adult. Open the cardboard box so it lays flat, then measure it. You want the box to be at least 45 inches wide and 60 inches high. Place the cardboard in front of you in a vertical layout. Use the bottom edge of the flattened box as the bottom side of a rectangle that is 45 inches long and 15 inches high. Draw the rectangle, then draw dividing lines inside it at 15-inch intervals to make three 15-inch squares. For example, government officials may want a new highway to cross a river at a certain point. It is a bridge engineer's job to create a design that solves that problem in the most effective and efficient way. Often, design solutions address much smaller problems.

Isometric Sketch of the Chair

 

Websites on Cardboard

1. http://www.instructables.com/id/Cardboard-Chairs-101/

2. http://www.designboom.com/cardboard3.html

3. http://www.ehow.com/how_2294732_make-cardboard-chair.html

Requirements for Blog

• 4 posts • 2 external Links

• 2 images • Background Design • 2 Comments

• Color Contrast—Font style/ Font Color

• Each post 10-15 sentences • Eastern Time Zone •Non-materials must deleted

Essential Questions

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- Describe what's a Blog?
A blog is a page that you put up post or blog's for people to see.

1/11/12
- Explain the difference between a New Blog and a New Post.
A new blog is creating a whole new profile or page. A new post is a comment or a information posted under the blog.

1/13/12
- Define and explain examples of a hyperlink
A link that is active to you for a website that directs the browse to another site. Ex: On one blogger page we have hyperlinks for Nguyen website and as well as our Engineering Homepage.

What I Learn From Creating a Blogger

 Good and effective profile can attract people towards your blog. It shows how much you are attached to your blog and what are your ideas. Your well made profile can reflect your personality, interests and about your personal life too. Editing your profile is quite simple and fun. On the dashboard of your Blogger account, you can see Edit Profile. By default your profile is public but if you don’t wish others to view your profile then you may simply disable your profile view by selecting the option “Share my profile”. You can also select which blogs you want to share in your profile page by “Select blogs to display” option. You can change the “Display name” that appears at the end of each blog post you post. Uploading a photo for profile is also simple. Here you cannot directly put the image from your computer but you have to have an image uploaded somewhere on the web. Don’t worry about that. There are plenty of websites which provide you free image hosting service.

What is a Bad and Good Web Page?

A bad website is one which fails to accomplish its intended goals. If a website is failing to do any of the following, it deserves to be called, bad. It is easy to make a dorky web page. It's also easy to make a very nice, clean, professional-looking web page even if you don't have much design experience. Often the difference, even for beginning designers, is simply a matter of eliminating certain features that are guaranteed to make a page look amateurish. Go through the list of things that people--designers and non-designers--from around the country have cited as the things that make the difference between a well-designed and a poorly designed web page. Keep in mind that the point of eliminating bad features is not just to make the page prettier, but to communicate more effectively. I learned that you must have a visible background that will not make it hard to see your post. Your text in your post must be big enough for people to read. I also learned that you must have links for you to go to easily.

What I Have Learned About The Glider Project.

Glider aircraft are heavier-than-air craft that are supported in flight by the dynamic reaction of the air against their lifting surfaces, and whose free flight does not depend on an engine. Mostly these types of aircraft are intended for routine operation without engines, though engine failure can force other types of aircraft to glide. Some gliders have engines for extending their flights and some have engines powerful enough to launch.There are a wide variety of types differing in the construction of their wings, aerodynamic efficiency, location of the pilot and controls. Some may have power-plants to take off and/or extend flight. Some are designed simply to descend, but the most common varieties exploit meteorological phenomena to maintain or even gain height. Gliders are principally used for the air sports of gliding, hang gliding and paragliding but are also used for recovering spacecraft. Perhaps the most familiar type is the paper plane. In this project I learned how important it was to create, build and fly a glider. Using a glider saved energy and gas with the ones we have today.

What is a Blog?

A blog is a personal journal published on the World Wide Web consisting of discrete entries "posts" typically displayed in reverse chronological order so the most recent post appears first. Blogs are usually the work of a single individual, occasionally of a small group, and often are themed on a single subject. Blog can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog. A blog is often a mixture of what is happening in a person's life and what is happening on the Web, a kind of hybrid diary/guide site, although there are as many unique types of blogs as there are people.People maintained blogs long before the term was coined, but the trend gained momentum with the introduction of automated published systems, most notably Blogger at blogger.com. Thousands of people use services such as Blogger to simplify and accelerate the publishing process. Blogs are alternatively called web logs or weblogs. However, "blog" seems less likely to cause confusion, as "web log" can also mean a server's log files. A frequent, chronological publication of personal thoughts and Web links. Many blogs provide commentary on a particular subject; others function as more personal online diaries.