Feeling Half-Hull? Carve a Tech Dinghy Model
Kurt Hasselbalch, Reuben Smith
Mon Jan 14 thru Fri Jan 18, 09am-01:00pm, woodshop N51-160
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 11-Jan-2002
Limited to 12 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Fee: 25.00 for Materials Fee
Back by popular demand for this new course, Reuben Smith brings his substantial boat building/restoration experience and down to earth approach in teaching how to use hand tools in translating a lines plan into a beautiful half-hull model. You will make a model which you will keep, and will learn how to use various hand tools and how to keep them sharp. You'll also learn a great deal about the design process. Before the adaptation of scientific design in the late 19th-century, ship and boat builders commonly sculpted the hull shape in the form of a half-hull model. We'll use copies of original plans by MIT Professor George Owen used by Herreshoff Manufacturing Co. to build the first group of 43 wooden lapstrake Tech Dinghies built for MIT. [see also lofting class under Engineering: Hands on].
Web: http://web.mit.edu/museum
Contact: Kurt Hasselbalch, N52-233A, x3-5942, kurt@mit.edu
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Holography Hands-On! An Introduction to Holography
Stephanie Hunt
Thu Jan 10, 17, 24, 31, 01-04:00pm, MIT Museum
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 08-Jan-2002
Limited to 6 participants.
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
Fee: 10.00 for Materials Fee
Learn how to make a hologram! This event in the Museum's holography laboratory will introduce the exciting process of making a reflection or transmission hologram. Bring along a solid, small (egg-sized) object to use as a holographic subject. The Museum's newest holography exhibition "Light Fantastic" will be a meeting point for discussion and exploration of this 3D medium.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/museum
Contact: MIT Museum Visitor Services, N-52, 253-5927, museum-programs@mit.edu
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Kinetic Sculptures and Impractical Machines: Playful Invention with New Digital Technologies
Stephanie Hunt, Members of the MIT Media Lab Learning and Epistemology Group
Wed Jan 9, 16, 23, 30, 01-04:00pm, MIT Museum
No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below)
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
Join MIT Museum, a member of the Playful Invention and Exploration Network (llk.media.mit.edu/projects/pie), in using new digital media to explore a different theme each week. Make anything from "dueling banjo" bots to squirting elephants to a venus fly trap. Use the range of inventive objects at the MIT Museum as inspiration for the creation of structures that respond to their environment. Use a newly-released graphics-based version of the Logo programming language, in development at the Media Lab, to program your creations. Weekly themes will be posted on the website listed below.
Web: http://cricket.media.mit.edu/iap2002
Contact: MIT Museum Visitor Services, N-52, 253-5927, museum-programs@mit.edu
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Learn the Art of Fair Curves by Lofting the Tech Dinghy
Kurt Hasselbalch, David Corcoran
Tue Jan 15 thru Fri Jan 18, 09am-05:00pm, wood shop N51-160
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 11-Jan-2002
Limited to 8 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Fee: 15.00 for Material Fee
This new course is a spin-off from the Museum's IAP boat building classes offered the previous two years. Lofting is the ancient art of creating the full-size curves of a hull shape in preparation to creating molds or frames to build a boat or ship. Fifty years ago and more lofting was a necessary skill for all boat builders. With the expanding use of lofting programs (many developed by persons who have never lofted) the skills of using hand and eyes to determine a fair line is a dying art. This is a great course if you wish to have a total understanding of problems and process that are now largely solved in applications. Dave Corcoran is a very experienced traditional wooden boat builder who has lofted and built a wide variety of hull forms including three different N.G. Herreshoff designs. We will use copies of the original plans by MIT Professor George Owen employed by Herreshoff Manufacturing Co. to build the first group of 43 wooden lapstrake Tech Dinghies ordered by MIT. [see also our new half-hull model making class under Crafts, Hobbies and do-it-yourself].
Web: http://web.mit.edu/museum
Contact: Kurt Hasselbalch, N 51-233A, x3-5942, kurt@mit.edu
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