update week 6

docs/assignments/week06.md

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 ![](../images/wk06_favresults.jpg)*Some results of the week. Left: potluck foam with and without egg shell powder as filler, middle & left: piercing alginate plastics, Loes Bogers, 2019*
 
-*Warning: this is a long read. We did a crazy amount of techniques this week. Summing it up:
+*Warning: this is a long read. We did a crazy amount of techniques this week. Summing it up: "Eggs eggs eggs! All I want is eggs!"  – [Trixie Mattel & Ginger Minj](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FE2Kp4GVBPs))
 
-> Eggs eggs eggs! All I want is eggs! 
-> – [Trixie Mattel & Ginger Minj](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FE2Kp4GVBPs))
+![](../images/wk06coffeemycelium.jpg)*Attempt to grow mycelium on coffeeground: contaminated (left), and looking quite well (right), Loes Bogers, 2019*
 
 ##Results and conclusions
 
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 ![](../images/wk06_inoculating.jpg)*Meanwhile, in the sterile bubble...Loes Bogers, 2019*
 
-We'll see how it turns out. After a week you can see if it's growing. After two weeks it's probably finished its food and you can add more. 
+We'll see how it turns out. After a week you can see if it's growing. After two weeks it's probably finished its food and you can add more. Seal with parafilm and incubate for 5-10 days. You can add more food with a sterile syringe (squeeze it underneath the mycelium) after 5-10 days to continue growing it. 
 
-Seal with parafilm and incubate for 5-10 days. You can add more food with a sterile syringe (squeeze it underneath the mycelium) after 5-10 days to continue growing it. 
+**Results after 10 days**
+
+My results were very mixed. I contaminated my large petri dish during inoculation and it didn't grown properly at all, but the four petri dishes of coffee ground I inoculated were a bit better. Two were looking nice and white and fluffy, but they aren't growing very fast. Two of them were contaminated which you can see by the color. It's nasty green, eww. It also doesn't smell great here right about now. I flushed the mycelium in broth down the toilet and cleaned the dish for a new attempt. Bea and Bela have beautiful pristine mycelium growing in their broth though! Well done girls. 
+
+![](../images/wk06coffeemycelium.jpg)*Attempt to grow mycelium on coffeeground: contaminated (left), and looking quite well (right), Loes Bogers, 2019*
+
+![](../images/wk06brothmycelium.jpg)*Mycelium in nutrient broth: not really taking root, but something else is.... Loes Bogers, 2019*
 
 
 

docs/assignments/week07.md

@@ -85,6 +85,8 @@ The main thing we needed were metal rods to keep the wiper height strips stacked
 > “A solid pipe…A rod maybe”<br>
 > “Ok, thanks. We already know where they are actually”<br>
 
+![](../images/wk07detailbox.jpg)*The rods/pipes/screws/bolts we ended up using, at work in our tool, Loes Bogers, 2019*
+
 ##Measure everything
 
 All your measurements are belong to us. The next day we measured literally everything: 
@@ -95,10 +97,14 @@ All your measurements are belong to us. The next day we measured literally every
 
 We found more problems and questions and figured out how we might solve them or which sizing we’d need to adapt. It was a combination of thinking through functions of the machine, sizes of surfaces needed, and techniques for constructing and keeping it all together. 
 
+![](../images/wk07palosanto.jpg)*Measurements and palo santo, Loes Bogers, 2019*
+
 ##Settling on shared terminology & toolology
 
 Our names for stuff! Very important here. They might not be “correct”, they might not be “the technical terms”, but they work for us until they don't. What use are symbols and proper names if you don’t share them anyway? They are useless even if they’re not.  And if you share them, why wouldn’t a different name work just as well?
 
+![](../images/wk07finalmachine.jpg)*the final prototype, pointing at a few of the parts and their naming, Loes Bogers, 2019*
+
 * Absolute base layer: the bottom bottom layer, made of wood. 
 * Profiled base layer (inner and outer), the wood layer on top of the absolute base layer. Consisting of an inner rectangle, and an outer frame (made of wood strips)
 * Rods, pipes, screws or bolts (may be used interchangeably in the context of our project)
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 >”The French originated the meter in the 1790s as one/ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the north pole along a meridian through Paris.  It is realistically represented by the distance between two marks on an iron bar kept in Paris.  The International Bureau of Weights and Measures, created in 1875, upgraded the bar to one made of 90 percent platinum/10 percent iridium alloy.” [– The Standard Meter](http://www.surveyhistory.org/the_standard_meter1.htm)
 
 Two wonderful accidental and manually achieve precision in our process: 
+
 * Finding out that the wooden bottom (10mm) + acrylic bottom (2mm) equal the height of your outside frame (12 mm) by accident = precision <3
 * Pressing two wooden sticks together with a 4mm thick piece of acrylic in between and then nailing them to a substrate (while pressing them together)  is a perfectly fine improvised way of achieving a nice and tight 4mm profile. It's snug alright. Boom.
 
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 * We tried to cut 10mm thick wood sheets but could not get through well even at power 100, speed 10. So Henk cleaned the lens of the laser for us. This helped and we could cut it well at Speed 12, Power 100. 
 * We did a cuttest to allow the bolts to fit well, but found out that we measured the smooth shaft, but not the screw wire (which is wider). As a result, the bolts are quite hard to go through at first and then – when they reach the smooth shaft part – are a bit loose. Which is fine when they are in the box, but it makes it very hard to add and remove the height strips if you want to alternate between casting thicker and thinner materials. Bela went to get smaller bolts. 
 
+![](../images/wk07laserloes.jpg)*We got to know the machine quite well during this adventure, Bela Rofe, 2019*
+
 ##Rhino design tips (now we’ve found all cutting hurdles)
 
 [INSERT]  Bea's notes here on exploding and exporting!
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 Place profiled base layer onto absolute layer and center
 3. Hold acrylic walls in place, put wooden sticks for profiled base layer outside them and mark with a pencil to cut to size. Cut to size and file off. 
 4. Push wooden sticks firmly against profiled base layer with acrylic wall and nail into absolute layer with a hammer. Add screws if width of sticks allows and they don’t splinter. Check that nails and screws are not too long…
+
+![](../images/wk07girlsdrilling.jpg)*Working on the machine! Loes Bogers, 2019*
+
 5. Glue the corners of the walls together with acrylic glue – the one that dries in seconds - hold until firmly attached. Don’t wiggle or move it though. This isn’t a strong connection (yet). THIS STEP NEEDS IMPROVEMENT/ALTERNATIVE SOLUTION
 6. Spread thin layer of transparent silicon (the one used for bathrooms) across the outside seams of the walls while they are sitting inside the profile. Put a plastic spacer on the wood so you don’t accidentally glue the acrylic to the wooden profile (needs to remain detachable for insertion of textiles). THIS STEP NEEDS IMPROVEMENT/ALTERNATIVE SOLUTION
 7. Let the silicon dry. Then take frame out, spread silicon layer alongside the inside seams. Finish the outside seams that were inside the profile before. Let it dry. THIS STEP NEEDS IMPROVEMENT/ALTERNATIVE SOLUTION
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 * Acrylic glue (fast-drying) > FIND ALTERNATIVE SOLUTION
 * Silicon for bathrooms > FIND ALTERNATIVE SOLUTION
 
+![](../images/wk07counterbore.jpg)*Me and Bea doing tests with a counterbore, and we do it in style! (next to the bin)... Bela Rofe, 2019*
+
 **Notes on assembling:**
 
 * Measure how deep your nails and screw sizes can go before nailing or screwing the boards to the floor. Check that you have nails and screws of that size before you start to assemble ;)
@@ -272,6 +286,8 @@ We took a trip down the lane, in the rain, to our local fabric merchant; A. Boek
 
 On Monday evening Bela and Bea dived into the first test cast on the Squeegee2000. They cast a beautiful 2mm thick sheet (before shrinking). The notes and conclusions from the test are already written into the process and conclusions above. 
 
+![](../images/wk07test.jpg)*Bela and Bea taking the Squeegee2000 for a test run, 2019*
+
 **Shrinkage after 1 day**:
 
 * 1000 to 790 mm = 21% on the long edge

docs/assignments/week08.md

 # 8. Computational couture
 
-This week I worked on defining my final project idea and started to getting used to the documentation process.
+What is computational design? A series of [automated] instruction carried out in a specific order (also definition of *scripting*). Hmmm this is debatable if you ask somebody with a humanities background. 
 
-## Research
+Alberti: instructions for a building. Forms into numbers and instructions forfabrication.
 
-"Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum."
+Deleuze describes Cache's objectile ranks. See also, Mario Carpo's "The Alphabet and the Algorithm". 
 
-> "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum."
+The capacity to produce variety. 
 
-## Useful links
+**Workflows**
 
-- [Jekyll](http://jekyll.org)
-- [Google](http://google.com)
-- [Markdown](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown)
+1. design through parameters. 
+2. loops and recursivity: output is result of a number of iterations over a duration of time
+3. agent based design
+4. CFD,eg Wearpure.tech, co2 absorbing garment
+4. physics simulation
+4. structural analysis: knowing where tension etc is will affect aesthetics and form
+4. optimization of materials
+4. evolutionary solver
 
+**Sectors of application**
 
-## Code Example
+* fashion
+* architecture
+* interior design
+* installations
 
-Use the three backticks to separate code.
+integration of machine protocol AND design actions. Like the dress that is printed in one piece in a fold, but that unfolds into a large dress once it's produced.
 
-```
-// the setup function runs once when you press reset or power the board
-void setup() {
-  // initialize digital pin LED_BUILTIN as an output.
-  pinMode(LED_BUILTIN, OUTPUT);
-}
+Anywhere where it's nice to produce variety by controlling parameters. Connection between form and function gets a whole new dimension here. Whoa. 
 
-// the loop function runs over and over again forever
-void loop() {
-  digitalWrite(LED_BUILTIN, HIGH);   // turn the LED on (HIGH is the voltage level)
-  delay(1000);                       // wait for a second
-  digitalWrite(LED_BUILTIN, LOW);    // turn the LED off by making the voltage LOW
-  delay(1000);                       // wait for a second
-}
-```
+**Inspiration** 
 
+Nervous System
 
-## Gallery
+Conditional design - Luna Maurer etc
 
-![](../images/sample-photo.jpg)
+marey'S studies (time)
 
-## Video
+Wearpure project from WAAG: adding powder to material so it absorbs co2. Optimized to increase absorbtion of air by simulating. Then 3D printing filament onto textile.
 
-### From Vimeo
+Behnaz Farahi - http://behnazfarahi.com/caress-of-the-gaze/
 
-<iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/10048961" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe>
-<p><a href="https://vimeo.com/10048961">Sound Waves</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/radarboy">George Gally (Radarboy)</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>
+**Why Grasshopper?**
 
-### From Youtube
+Because it doesn't require programming or scripting knowledge to make generative algorithms. Allows designers to do it.
 
-<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/jjNgJFemlC4" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen></iframe>
-
-## 3D Models
-
-<div class="sketchfab-embed-wrapper"><iframe width="640" height="480" src="https://sketchfab.com/models/658c8f8a2f3042c3ad7bdedd83f1c915/embed" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; fullscreen; vr" mozallowfullscreen="true" webkitallowfullscreen="true"></iframe>
-
-<p style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; margin: 5px; color: #4A4A4A;">
-    <a href="https://sketchfab.com/models/658c8f8a2f3042c3ad7bdedd83f1c915?utm_medium=embed&utm_source=website&utm_campaign=share-popup" target="_blank" style="font-weight: bold; color: #1CAAD9;">Dita&#39;s Gown</a>
-    by <a href="https://sketchfab.com/francisbitontistudio?utm_medium=embed&utm_source=website&utm_campaign=share-popup" target="_blank" style="font-weight: bold; color: #1CAAD9;">Francis Bitonti Studio</a>
-    on <a href="https://sketchfab.com?utm_medium=embed&utm_source=website&utm_campaign=share-popup" target="_blank" style="font-weight: bold; color: #1CAAD9;">Sketchfab</a>
-</p>
-</div>
-
-## Bonus section & recitation
-
-Bonus is a bonus
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