The Big Ben

An automatic control project

"You said you want me to wear a Big Ben on my head? Alright."

Duration:

2017

Role:

Props team leader, prop creator, (actor)

Team:

Ethan Chen

Skills:

Design

Duration:

2023 Feb — now

Team:

Ethan Chen, Jerry Lo, Ai-yung Chen, Howard Liu, Avery Lin, Sophie Chou

Skills:

2D design, 3D design, software integration, entrepreneurship

Overview:

My high school holds a class-wide drama contest every year.

My role that year was the prop team leader. Aside from assigning tasks to my classmates, I made a few props myself.

The goal

Our drama is set in London, thus we thought it would be cool if we could show that by having someone act as the Big Ben and have him dance with the rest of us at the end of the performance.

The Ideation Process

Snapshot of my sketch

The images above are a couple of my design sketches for the Big Ben. I deliberately calculated many parameters during design process.

The process

A photo of the Big Ben in progress

Building the Big Ben, to be honest, was not necessarily an easy task because there were many parts to make. Thanks to the maths I have done beforehand, I could ask my classmates to cut some for me. I am glad all the parts fitted well while assembling the Ben.

The result

A photo of our final performance

In this photo, you can clearly see my classmate wearing the Big Ben at the center of the spotlight. It was a fantastic moment.