On Tuesday our group got inducted into the metal workshops. Most of the machines were very similar to the woodwork station. However we had some practise bending and spotwelding steel sheets and copper coated steel rods so we could get used to the noises and strength of the machines so we could be more comfortable next time we had to use the workshops.
Our brief was that we had to use steel rods to make a frame for something with a void in the middle so in future we would be able to make frames for machines we would be making. I decided to make an octahedron. I turned it into a terrarium for a plant and it turned out quite successful. It was interesting finding ways of attaching the pieces of metal together and getting comfortable to do them on my own.
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