Centro Ciência Viva do Lousal - Hey Kids! This Mine is for you
Project developed in a team environment, in Maquettree Studios, Lda.
Duration Period: January 2009 - February 2009
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Duration Period: January 2009 - February 2009
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Participation: Product Design, Technical Drawings, Mechanical System Design, Final Assembly
Participation: Product Design, Technical Drawings, Mechanical System Design, Final Assembly
Exhibit by the entrance of the "Hey Kids! This Mine is for you" playground;
Kids have to work together with gears, to transmit movement to the mine shaft elevator (inside the scale model), in order to save the miners from the water on the bottom of the shaft, and remove them safely from the mine.
Kids have to work together with gears, to transmit movement to the mine shaft elevator (inside the scale model), in order to save the miners from the water on the bottom of the shaft, and remove them safely from the mine.
Exhibit's frontal perspective showing the many positions where gears may be placed to complete a mechanism
General view of the entire playground room.
In this playground, kids get to dress up like miners and handle cubes of ore, using shovels, conveyor belts, and even a mine hoist's headframe. There also ore carts to be loaded next to the headframe, to remove the ore out of the mine area.
In this playground, kids get to dress up like miners and handle cubes of ore, using shovels, conveyor belts, and even a mine hoist's headframe. There also ore carts to be loaded next to the headframe, to remove the ore out of the mine area.
