Category: Construction

Modern Plastics

If you’ve been following our progress you know that when faced a problem we discovered the awning system was going to take a while to

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The awning in action

This is it folks, our awning is coming together. I got back to Western Mass around 1pm today to work on this. We went to

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Ribs

I spent 3 hours today with John at the MIT hobby shop, and a few hours before that collecting pieces and parts. We’re using marine

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Joints

Thought I might prototype the joint. This took me about 10 minutes over at MIT. John, Jinhee and I were expecting Phil to take this

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Berkshire Lumber

It’s no secret that my counter tops take their inspiration from Northampton Coffee. I love that place, and in part the level of care and

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Awning story

John Hong (architect) is having trouble getting any fabricators to take on this project. Uhg. The drawings look beautiful, but everybody is busy and nobody

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The truck has been cut

The body shop has cut windows in the truck. I think they are going to be fantastic. You can see here the sinks I installed

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Final awning design

Here’s a quick video of the final awning. John and Jinhee have been working too much overtime to make this come together, but I think

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