Looks good Kirok! Congratulations on another successful 12 Trek Days of Christmas!
The PADD looks great too! I regret that this past year has been an absoloute nightmare for me, hopefully things will settle down in 2009! Best Regards, Ron Caudillo On Jan 25, 2:30 pm, Kirok <[email protected]> wrote: > Papermodels are a craft rather than an art but a papermodel designer > still needs to consider the same problems faced by other artists/ > craftsmen: should one focus on form or function - in other words, > should it focus on looking good or being practical? If you wanted a > prop of the Next Generation Tricorder you couldn't go past the > attention to detail of the one sold by Master > Replicas<http://www.masterreplicas.com/product.asp?pid=197>. However > technology that > does the same work as the Tricorder has been developed by Vital > Technologies<http://www.stim.com/Stim-x/0996September/Sparky/ > tricorder.html>, Raman Systems<http://ramansystems.com/content/view/ > 39/141/> and even the New Zealand firm ARANZ > Medical<http://www.aranzmedical.com/mobile.htm>, none of which look remotely > like the > canon prop! > > I was in the same dilema when looking for a papermodel project for > this year's <http://www.twerponline.net/12days2008/>Twelve Trek Days > of Christmas. Last year we did a calendar and I like the idea of > something practical like that however I wanted it to have something to > do with papermodels this year. A pepermodel calendar? Close but too > easy. I thought about doing a datebook (too much like a fanzine and > you'll be getting fed up of my writing by now!) or a CD jewel case > calendar (a good project but not really a papermodel is it?). > > I decided to finally bring together some ideas I have had percolating > through what I laughingly call a brain, for some time. In the past > I've tried my hand at science education for primary > schoolers<http://www.geocities.com/andertonbargo/bronzewing/index.html> and > agonised > over a papermodel of a PADD. I've often thought that it would be cool > to handout science notes in a PADD but never taken it beyond following > the great work in paper information technology being done by the > "paper PDA" community<http://www.diyplanner.com/>. > > So here's The Paper PADD Mk 01 for the Starfleet Cadet Academy, Tech > Level: 2009. It stands to reason that, even with all the wizz-bang > technology they will have in the 24th century, kids will still want to > make things and besides, understanding is something that needs to be > experienced rather than force-fed. It's my belief that primary > schoolers will still be taught to use the traditional media of pencil, > pen and paper, alongside more high technology resources, so that the > ancient skills of writing and crafts - and their necessary hand/eye > coordination - will not be lost. > > At the moment it is at the Beta testing stage and I have included > eight notepad drawing and text pages but this will be updated soon > with a 2009 Star Trek papermodel calendar. The two pdfs needed to > print out the cover (print in colour, single-sided) and the insert > sheets (colour, double sided) can be found on Scribd > HERE<http://www.scribd.com/doc/11341006/PaperPADD011> and > HERE<http://www.scribd.com/doc/11342918/PaperPADD-Sheets-011>. I'd like > feedback > from builders on either the Star Trek Papermodel Yahoo Group<http:// > groups.yahoo.com/group/StarTrekPaperModels>, the Okudagrams.com > forum<http://www.joseralat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1470> or the > DIYPlanner forum<http://www.diyplanner.com/node/6377>. > > Cheers > > Kirok of L'Stok --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Papermodels II" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Papermodels?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
