"The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop people who don't want it badly enough. They're there to stop the other people." -Randy Pausch
The question is how well do I deal with brick walls? Lets put it this way, I've never let a brick wall stop me if I know I can go through it. I don't think a person should aim for an impossible task or a goal that is too easily accomplished, but a person should go for something that they know they can do. A person has to know what they can do. I have encountered problems with the fall play set. My whole project, a time machine. Not too easy, I can't just get a flucks capaciter and Delorean sports car, Doc. I had to build this thing from scratch. It had to be life size. It had to be "steam powered," well, look it anyway. I produced a pretty cool machine I have to admit. When I was almost finished with the chassis it turned out that it had to be shortened and channeled.* Turned out that the driver also wasn't sitting in it, he had to stand on top of it, Luckily my design was already strong enough to do this with minor alterations. But now my ex-bicycle time twisting clock was no longer functuional from the drivers seat. I ended up putting a person inside it to drive the clock face. I realized after these modifications I had little time left for details. I ended up having my friend Craig cut out the grill on the lazer engraver and my friend Antonia paint the mock wheels. I'll upload a picture later.
*channeled-height was cut down.
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