Cricket Centrifuges
Design two medical devices for a fantasy world - one for the incredibly rich, & one for the incredibly poor.
PROCESS
I decided to make a centrifuge because I was excited to play with the rotary motion and centrifugal force of that particular device.
I used found objects and materials for the lower-class centrifuge, then weathered with acrylic paint. For the upper-class centrifuge, I used REN foam processed by the vertical milling machine & metal lathe, as well as stained walnut & a wired switch system.
MODEL 1: UPPER-CLASS CENTRIFUGE
MODEL 2: LOWER-CLASS CENTRIFUGE
THE STORY
The world has been ravaged by a disease known as the Insecticide. Human overpopulation & climate change released dangerous chemicals into the atmosphere, causing more & more illness & death over the next several years. The plague of Insecticide greatly widened the distance between socioeconomic classes. A remedy using the centrifuged blood of wild crickets was created, but only the richest among us could afford it. However, an old farmer named Joseph Smallhand may have cracked the code. By stealing a broken centrifuge & using it to make a jerry-rigged version, he has synthesized a less effective, but much cheaper version of the cure.
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