Website from Firstfold

firstfold · Post by **firstfold** » November 1st, 2006, 2:52 pm

Please visit and enjoy my website:

http://home.comcast.net/~firstfold/index.html

Here is an indirect link with less typing:

http://firstfold.net/

Make sure to check out the moving "Safari Truck" link at the bottom of the home page !

Post by **Daydreamer** » November 2nd, 2006, 8:18 am

Hi and welcome to the Forum

I actually saw your Safari Track on YouTube a few days back. It's really cool.
Hope you will finish the instructions for it soon

firstfold · Post by **firstfold** » November 2nd, 2006, 3:29 pm

The diagram for the Axel for the Safari Truck is on the web site. Getting the dimensions right is a bit tricky but folding the axel is fairly easy.

A pattern for the wheel is also there but probably needs a few pictures or diagrams to help folders. This is the most difficult part of the whole model.

I will add some pictures for folding the wheel soon.

The Axel housing is the third essential part - I will be adding a diagram and picture to my web site when I get the time.

Once you get these three parts together on a "Slip-and-Stick" frame, you can add any type of vehical you want with "Slip" and "stick" parts of various sizes.

You might try making a simple two wheel "cart" as a starter.
I will be putting together a "Train" and perhaps a "Farris Wheel"

Somebody want to attempt a working "dump truck"?

Cupcake · Post by **Cupcake** » November 3rd, 2006, 12:25 am

Very nice!

firstfold · Post by **firstfold** » November 4th, 2006, 5:10 am

I have added a picture sequence showing the wheel being folded in the Diagram section of my website:

http://home.comcast.net/~firstfold/index.htm

One correction on the crease pattern.

The length of each segment is noted as 1/9 of the paper length.
It is actually 1/9 of the wheel unit length.

The axel uses the full length of the paper - the wheel is 2/3 of that length.
Therefore, the segment length for the wheel is 1/9 of 2/3 or 2/27ths.

If you can't divide a paper in thirds see my starters in group 1
Ninths are made by folding thirds into thirds.

That's enough math for now.

Have fun folding
Charles "Doc" Santee

firstfold · Post by **firstfold** » November 13th, 2006, 1:09 am

I have recently added pictures of a working catapult. It features new slip-and-stick parts including "elbows", "sticks with stops" and a "battery box".

You might say this model is battery powered (pun intnded) -
Check it out to see how.

firstfold · Post by **firstfold** » December 3rd, 2006, 1:28 am

It's here - Perhaps the first moving Origami Ferris Wheel !
If you have seen a similar model - let me know.
Check it out at my web site !

http://home.comcast.net/~firstfold/index.htm

Post by **Daydreamer** » December 3rd, 2006, 1:53 am

Very nice

But... I'm sorry to say that it's not the first. There is one by Yoshihide Momotani in the book Origami Amusement Park, not sure if it works (I think it does though).

Better picture of models in the book

firstfold · Post by **firstfold** » December 3rd, 2006, 5:01 pm

Thanks for the info - if anyone knows more about the Feris Wheel model let me know. Are there instructions in English available? Are the units made from rectangles or squares . Any glue?

My next project is an animated picture box that changes from between three (or more) pictures at the press of a button. Have you seen anything like that out there?

DOC

Post by **origami_8** » December 3rd, 2006, 6:05 pm

Sounds interesting.

I like your moving Origami, also if itÂ´s multi piece. It looks cool.

The Ferris wheel instructions in Origami Amusement park are in japanese. The modules are from squares and as far as I can tell from the diagrams no glue is used, but there seems to be a stick at the middle axis, but it could only be some kind of symbol IÂ´m not sure about it.

The book has some other cute models inside like a merry-go-round a roller coaster,...

I canÂ´t remember having seen an Origami picture thingy like the one you described above.

firstfold · Post by **firstfold** » December 19th, 2006, 11:57 pm

My latest model is a working gear box that lets you "drop in" gears.

It will be used on the "picture thing" that will be finished some time in January.

I know there are a few gearwheel models out there - I have seen the pictures and the diagrams for the Maartin Van Gelder model - there is also a wheel gear in Italian that I can not find a picture of - anybody seen that one?

firstfold · Post by **firstfold** » December 29th, 2006, 3:26 pm

Check out the new - "Origami Picture Thingy" on you tube:
http://www.youtube.com/user/firstfold

Have you ever seen any thingy like this?
Please let me know !

Cupcake · Post by **Cupcake** » December 30th, 2006, 7:00 pm

I have never seen anything like this before in all or origami, very interesting. The numbers were amazing!

However, it would be even more amazing if it was out of one piece of paper...

firstfold · Post by **firstfold** » February 1st, 2007, 11:31 pm

Well, I finally got diagrams for Elbows on my web site.

I have also included a most unusual origami puzzle. You can see it on my web site or on flicker at:

www.flickr.com/photos/firstfold/369247487

If you know how to solve the puzzle send your solutions to:

Firstfold@comcast.net

Do NOT post the solution here (on this Forum) - That would spoil the fun !

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Website from Firstfold

Website from Firstfold

Safari Truck - diagrams and folding instructions

Pictures of wheel being folded and slight correction

New Action Model on this Web Site

Origami Ferris Wheel

Origami Ferris Wheel - Thanks

Gear Box

Picture trhingy on You Tube

Origami Puzzle