And it’s over with a bang!!! Yeah that’s right, we have officially finished the Metaphor Machine project! And what a roller coaster it was!

I’m actually really proud of our final product…even if it didn’t work the majority of the time. My group was formed of brilliant minds and we worked super hard to make everything great for the exhibition night.

Chris and Anatolia’s iMovie was great and added lots of detail to go with our machine. Nash and I’s blueprint looked great fine lined and dolled up. It looked very professional (if I do say so myself). And then of course there was the machine, the we all worked on but Michael and Zak made it all work and come together as the engineers.

On the exhibition night, we all did a great job to explain our machine well and demonstrate as best we could with a non functional pulley system.

Anyways, here’s our video for our all so amazing Metaphor Machine:

Overall, this was definitely a project that will not be forgotten. From wanting to make a green screen with our machine, to Chris’s whirlwind of emotions being displayed! I am looking forward to doing another similar project in the future!

The Big Question: Have we finished our Metaphor Machine yet?

The answer to that is yes and no. Yes as in Nash and I completed the blueprints and they are looking spick and span, as well as the Machine working 50% of the time. No as in I kind of have no clue about what is going on with the iMovie (but because Chris and Anatolia are in charge of that, I believe that it’s going to rock!), and the Machine is only working 50% of the time!

So moving on, a great way to summarize our machine-making experience is to make a short film displaying all the different emotions that we had. But Anatolia beat me to it and already made one of those. Here’s hers:

But I still kind of wanted to make my own, so I did… Even though it’s pretty much the exact same as hers (sorry Anatolia). Here’s mine:

Your probably thinking “well your group is kind of all over the palce” and your machine probably isn’t going to work”. But honestly, my group was great during this project and they were a blast to work with! And yes our machine only works 5/10 times and it’s a huge Green Mean Machine, but I am proud of the work we have accomplished and I am confident that we will have a great finished product ready to show on exhibition night!

Next week, our Metaphor Machines are due, so we are hustling to get them all ready and finished. This past week, Zak and Michael have been starting to put all of the finishing touches of our machines together, Anatolia and Chris have making our movie rough cuts, and Nash and I have been finishing off our machine blueprints.

We have been conducting many changes in our plans, and we are very good at figuring out different ways to make our machine better. We have thought out many senarios about how this machine could go wrong, and we have sorted them out and fixed them.  Having all the right people in this group has made this project thrive, and I am confident (I think) that the machine will work well, just as we hope it will.