I found this task quite challenging and in the end had to surrender to a “not so perfect” design. At the beginning I tried to create a system that only relied on one join as I could foresee that the locking system being trailed around me was not going to hold the four sides together. Although it is wise to put “pen to paper” before “knife to card”, I found that a little too much thinking was simply a good waste of time and that sometimes it is best to just make the mistake and then subsequently learn from it.
After looking at the clock and realizing that two hours had passed and I had absolutely nothing to show except for a few lines and numbers that were of little use, I subsided to the four sided joining system. Frustrated and annoyed mixed in with a rapid loss of concentration I decided to talk to “the friendly man sitting in the corner” who was completing his masters (sorry, can’t remember his name). He suggested that perhaps I should tackle it from the inside rather than the outside.
After leaving class I experimented with a few locking systems that worked from the centre of the pyramid rather than the four sides. Finally I came up with a two-piece triangle that interlocked and mounted to the base of the pyramid. Once in place the mini triangle had four “keys” that individually locked into the “keyholes” on the four sides of the pyramid.
In theory the locking system worked but in the end what let me down was a “not so perfect” pyramid design, which I think was perhaps a result of slighting off measurements or untidy cutting.
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