Tansy is a design student and a beginner local maker in Auckland. She explores materials through playful, hands-on processes. She enjoys testing different possibilities, noticing small details, and learning through making. Her physics background helps her see how materials respond and transform. She values sustainability and hopes to use both design and physics to help and support others. Tansy also wants to use these materials and skills to express herself and her ideas.

Project Blog

Introduction(?)

Early experiment

Use the crochet techniques that I just learnt from my grandma when I was in China and experiment it with the waste wire instead of using yarn.

Think of using differnt thickness wire to make flowers.

My own observations & More materials

After returning to New Zealand, I noticed that jump wires were often stored in large quantities and visually looked-like bundles of yarns in my Physics lab. At the same time, I noticed that the broken electronic components from students’ experiment are always directly go into the bin.

Through conversations with lab tutors, I learned that these materials are rarely repaired or reused, mainly because they are cheap and easy to replace.

Experiment Developments

Start with these materials. And simply put all the materials together.

My idea changed after talking to the Design Fablab teacher more. Even these jump wires can still function if slightly modified, they are still uaully just been throw away directly because they are cheap.

So I want to trying making a functional circuit with these ‘waste’ wires.

Waste wire+ Soft string

Pure Wire Flower

Only one wire flower