#future learn course

It has been 8 weeks since I began my Creative Writing course at Future Learn. For those of you who wish to practice and master the art of writing I recommend taking the course. After 8 weeks and many stores and characters drafted  you will come to your final assigment – creating your very own 700 to 1000 words story and submiting it for review.

Here is my short story:

Silver towers was a rather…

Character Sketch – Writing Exercise

This character sketch is for an assignment and created for the character from the Five Finger Pitch. Enjoy and let me know your thoughts. MELODY Melody loves her life. She has two children, who have inherited her chocolate locks, emerald green eyes, freckles and slim physique. What they don’t share are the premature wrinkles, silver strands and shadows under the eyes. She has her dream career as…

A Five Finger Pitch – Scriptwriting Exercise

This is task for one of my courses (Introduction to Scriptwriting) and I have decided to use one of my own ideas rather than a film or book. A Five Finger Pitch is a layout for building your story. Each finger represents a small element and you don’t write anymore than you can fit on a finger. What you end up with are the bare bones for your story, whether it be for a script or book. This…

Shaping bones and joints ideally to match the patients connected to the persons own nerves and muscles.

Form follows function: eg: strength in the bones of the forearm or digits, flexibility in the joints, power in whatever artificial muscle will drive the function of grasp. So which function has to be aided.

Necessary cooperation between the design side and the operational side with regards to satisfactory syncing of the prosthetic.

“Rather than patenting and licensing the technology for profit, however, Richard and Ivan made the design freely available. Now over 200 people around the world have been fitted with a prosthetic they could never otherwise have afforded. Richard went on to set up his company, Robohand, and their 3D printable prosthetics now include Robofinger, Roboarm and Roboleg.“

Two low cost 3d printing materials ABS (acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene) and PLA (polylactic acid)