Founder, Gayle Parsons, sums up the Summer Print week by week.
WEEK 5
Rain has played a big part in curtailing our printing schedule this week, and sadly when water got into the teach pendant we had to get a new touch screen installed at Global Robots. They were super quick getting it changed though so we were back up and running the next day.
We’ve had two new volunteers with us, Danila and Daniel, both are T-level construction students at Stamford College, who are keen to learn and have been happy to undertake anything we’ve asked of them. They’ll be joining us for one or two days a week for Work Experience until the end of the Summer Print, alongside our other volunteers Kathryn and Basama.
We’ve realised that we need to pre-soak our mix for several days before printing with it, so we’ve prep’d around 20 Trugs with varying mixes and ratios of earth:water:sand so we can really focus on which mix we’ll be basing our trials on. We’d also like to try out Hemp Shiv, Sheep’s Wool and Warmcel as well as Straw, as the fibre in the mix, and these trials will be happening once we are happy with the mix ratios.
Megan is really getting to grips with designing in Rhino & Grasshopper and we’ll be printing a couple of her designs next week. Adam has been super helpful as always, solving pump problems and contributing hugely to the material science decision making process.
