Yesterday's labs were fun. In the morning our group fixed our tensegrity plate of 3-bar units, and then we constructed a tensegrity plate of 4 4-bar units. We didn't make a tensegrity plate for 6-bar units though. Daniel connected the entire cluster's 3-bar tensegrity plates, and we took turns lying on the "bed." It was fairly comfortable, but eventually one of the sticks snapped because the person hadn't distributed her weight well (she sat down on it instead of immediately lying down and distributing weight over the whole thing).
Afterwards, we worked on connectivity diagrams for the 3-bar Snelson prism and a tensegrity tower. In the afternoon, we learned how to actually build a tensegrity tower, which was pretty fun. One of our attempts failed. We were trying to build a 2-story 4-bar tower, and we accidentally used 9 sticks instead of 8. So we got a pentagon instead of a square on top. We successfully fixed it, though.
So those were our labs for the day. Hopefully tomorrow we'll be able to finish building and performing our tests. If not, I suppose we'll have to settle for just making a model instead of experimenting with our model. Have a nice day!
~CS
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