Fastener

Art Structure

Mike Desmond

 

Rubber Band Fastener

Our groups design

Our fastener was the rubber band.  We designed and layed out the structure with the pieces, and then designed how we would connect and hold everything together.  We made up a system where we cut grooves in the sides of the wood where the rubber bands would hold, so that they would stay in place.  The rubber bands would hold the pieces of wood together, and the rubber bands would be held in place by the grooves.  When we noticed weak spots, we added more rubber bands to increase the strength and hold the structure together more securely.  Sean's idea was to make a field goal post, so we designed it.  We experimented with the structure so that it could be held together in the most secure way, and finished pretty quickly.  We could've worked more to make it more advanced but had no more ideas and the rubber bands limited our creations.