Monthly Folding Challenge: March 2012

[GWB origami]

it's AWESOME!!! wow! i can't believe it actually works!

[gab]

If it's too effective it becomes a danger to itself.

[firstfold]

This is my entry for the “Useful and Astonishing” challenge. I am not going to tell you what it is used for just yet. If you think you have an idea what it is, make a guess. If you make a guess, give that guess an interesting name. I may just (with your permission) use that name for this entry.
If I get a number of wrong guesses in that are far off base, I will let you know by saying “That is not what I made but that sounds like a great idea, fold it!” If I don’t say anything it may be that your ideas is so good it doesn’t need encouragement or maybe it matches something I already have planned for another entry and I don’t want to let you know just yet, or maybe you got lucky and made a good guess, or maybe what you guessed just leaves me speechless.
Over the next two weeks, I will add additional clues until I am ready to reveal the real function of this entry.

Firstfold



Link to Flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/firstfold/6985551165/

[firstfold]

Look at my Photostream in Flickr back through my photos from 2007. You will see in a few photographs an object that was used to show the strength of the folds. Careful examination of this object provides a clue to the purpose of my entry for the March 2012 Challenge.

[Gerardo]

Look at my Photostream in Flickr back through my photos from 2007. You will see in a few photographs an object that was used to show the strength of the folds. Careful examination of this object provides a clue to the purpose of my entry for the March 2012 Challenge.

The letter B?! I still have no idea, a type writer ?

[firstfold]

You have the right picture but look at the other object in the picture, not what is folded.
Doc

[GWB origami]

piano? maybe writing stampers in a holder?

[Gerardo]

Can someone help me contact kareshi. I sent him a PM but he hasn't even read it.

It's related with the challenge .

[firstfold]

I think my first entry does look something like piano keys. You probably expected me to make another operating musical instrument but that is not the case - just yet.

Here is just a design for a "Slip-and-Stick" version of my musical "Tessellation Flicka-Phone" . You could make it with different lengths and widths and use different thickness of paper to get a better range of tones. At present this is just the design, not the actual model:



Follow this link to Youtube if you don't know what a Flicka-Phone is -
http://youtu.be/53UBScJg1Xs

Just to make things clear my mystery model is NOT a musical instrument.

Doc

[Gerardo]

Here is just a design for a "Slip-and-Stick" version of my musical "Tessellation Flicka-Phone" . You could make it with different lengths and widths and use different thickness of paper to get a better range of tones. At present this is just the design, not the actual model

Wow... that looks amazing. What program did you use?

On a different matter... is it a book lamp?

[Sunburst]

I thought that models that were posted in the international challenge were automatically eligible in the monthly challenge. I'll just repost mine here for good measures

My entry: a voodoo doll





And firstfold, your model reminds me of a typing of fabric weaving machine (not that I'm very familiar with those.) Either way, I'm sure that each colored parts move as one. Could it be a folding chair?

[jeko]

@firstfold
Given the 2 clues: a coin sorter?

[Gerardo]

I thought that models that were posted in the international challenge were automatically eligible in the monthly challenge. I'll just repost mine here for good measures

My entry: a voodoo doll

I'm glad you did this... No, every participant must personally post their model in both challenges, if they want to participate in both of them. Some might not want to participate in mine or in this one, so that's why

[firstfold]

My mystery entry is NOT a coin sorter and NOT a book Lamp. The idea of an Origami Coin Sorter sounds interesting, someone should try that. I can imagine two approaches that might work, one by the size of the coin rolling down increasinly narrowing ledges. The other would use weight that would press down counterballenced levers from light to heavy untill the matching counterbalence was achieved to send the coin in a different direction. Both would be quite difficult given the precision required.

Once in a great while I do illuminate my creations with light such as "Light-up-the-dice" series and of course the shadow casters such as my "Butterfly-Tree", and the "Aeolian-Shadow-Shifter"


Doc

[firstfold]

My design for the "Slip-and-Stick" Flicka-Phone was drawn with Google Sketchup.
You may soon see some of my creations in a Google Sketchup Showcase called "Make-It-Real"
If you have Google Sketchup go to the 3D Warehouse type "Duesenberg" as a search and you can play with (rotate and Scale) my planning drawing for the "Origami Duesenberg Too".

Doc