Group Project: Light Trail display
By Matt, Aidan, Derek, Jess & James Tools at the Makerspace used: MIG welder Planer Band saw Mitre saw Laser cutter Soldering iron various handheld tools Concept and design Each year the South Swindon Parish Council hosts a light trail at night though the Old Town Gardens. It’s a fun event where you get to walk though the gardens at night viewing different light installations from disco balls to multi-coloured arches and more. Back in the middle of September we approached the council with the concept of us making something for the light trail. We had about 8 weeks after contacting them and discussing initial ideas to design and build the whole thing, ready for it to be used on the opening night of 30th Nov As a group we came up with a few different ideas. An infinity mirror dodecahedron, which while visually unique didn’t have much interaction. Angel or fairy wings, we would have like those on the trail to control the light patterns on these but that added too much complexity in our limited time window to make this. The design we ended up choosing was penguins and a snowma