
Who doesn't love exploding chicken? This is what the inside of an egg timer looks like. More parts than it seems from the outside.
BEST: Breaking it apart was pretty fun, and modelling it was great once I got into the rhythm of things. This was definitely a great learning experience for figuring out how winding, time keeping mechanisms work.
WORST: Measuring everything accurately down to the last thousandth of an inch. Also, I very cleverly [sarcasm] decided to model this in sketchup and import it as a pdf into illustrator. Stuupid move. There was a lot of fixing that had to go on in illustrator as sketchup does not like curved surfaces and insists on creating jagged edges. I absolutely had the time of my life fixing those springs in illustrator.