Day one of four of going hard trying to put this iPod into Rhino.

     Okay. It's time to do this. I have four days. Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. I took yesterday (the day after the kettle fiasco) off to work on other stuff- though the nature of that means I am down two bowls in ceramics that now rest in my reclaim bucket. However- yay! Learning! I am also happy to report that the guy from the kettle building video has not appeared in my dreams and I think by this point I am safe from that.

lets do this!

    Wow, this is absolute lies. I bought this digital caliper and it says that the battery is included, but it does NOT have a battery! This is extremely crappy. Now I need to go to Wal-Mart, even though I literally just had a shower and have my comfy clothes on and am all set up for success. I don't want to put on real pants!

Micheals, you are a house of LIES! ... but I mean the 40% off coupon I had more than covers the cost of batteries...

So I packed up my dog and went all the way to Wal-Mart, because it said they had the right batteries online. They were out though, so I just bought some ice cream and celery. The Wal-mart man said to go to Dollarama, and I got the batteries there. The fact that button batteries have different names for different brands unlike say, AA batteries is super annoying.

Then I got home and opened up the iPod and looked inside. It was more complicated than I remembered them being so I laughed to myself and closed it again. Mousetrap it is!

I was all like, oh yeah I've totally seen inside one of these before tis not that complicated! But I am crazy apparently.

It's a thing!

It's a thing in a  million pieces!

I made the wood parts of the base pretty quickly, and even added textures of plywood to make the layers look different. I decided that due to the nature of this quick and cheaply made object I would be designing the "ideal" mousetrap. So scuffs, little discrepancies for the ways for instance holes are punched through wood by staples, would be made round and nice. I think this seems fair, as it was most likely the designers intent.

Ooh. Ahh. Wood layers.

I've decided that the best way to make these lil holes for the staples is to make a cone out of the lofted measurements of the size of the hole and the top and the hole at the bottom of the bottom of the base of the mousetrap. Then I set the circle (cone?) at the bottom corner, so that I can copy and move it the mm to where it was measured from the side.

I love when I can just type in some numbers and things move accurately.

Since I would need many of these but was using the typing in move amount tool thingy I made copies of this cone and moved it using grid snap down so that it was easily accessible and I could move another one to the corner and move that copy into position. I boolean differenced those holes right in there and it looks pretty cool. I'm sure this is just the easy part but I think that is enough for today, especially given all the dumb hiccups I have had getting started. I am going to get a pretty good-ish nights sleep and GO HARD tomorrow!!