I felt my desk in my home was too clean and not very cool. Also, since my desk lamp is crooked a little bit, it could not shine a light on the whole desk, and it caused the shade to appear, making it harder to see clearly. So, I thought I needed some kind of small lamp to shine the whole desk and some decoration.  Therefore, I thought of making a tensegrity lamp. I learned viewcube, sketching rectangles, circles, trim, mirrors, spline, circular patterns, rectangular patterns, construction lines, sketch scale, text, and Text modification. I used a sketch rectangle to make the central panel of my tensegrity lamp, and I used a construction line to measure where I should put the legs since tensegrity requires perfectly calculated balance to work. Since there weren’t any problems with the plan, I didn’t change the plan.
While making sure my plan has no error, I found out that I need to print two panels for each, thicknesses of 3mm and 5mm since I planned the panel to be 8mm so it is solid and stable enough, but the lab didn’t have 8mm wood. After finishing the plan, I made my first trial with wood since it might break if I made tensegrity with cardboard. So, I tried to assemble the pieces of tensegrity, but since I didn’t know that tensegrity is stable when every leg is at the right angle, which is 90°, the first tensegrity was working, but it was not sturdy enough.   Therefore, I removed the legs glued so firmly that some parts fell off the leg. Thus, I requested new panels. However, the result of the second trial had an error – the thickness of the 3mm wood was different. Therefore I sanded a lot. After making them to the same thickness, I thought about how to glue legs at the right angle, and I came out with an idea: using a triangle-shaped right-angle ruler to make sure they are 90°. It worked, but it took a lot of time. After gluing, I needed to connect them with strings. However, I didn’t know how to connect the lines. This time, Mr.Diego helped me. His idea was to make a hole in the leg of tensegrity, put the string in, and tie them, while I didn’t know the lines should be the same length to make tensegrity stable. So, I connected the ropes again, which was done this time. Throughout this process, I felt my planning and designing skills were good enough to make errorless products, while I didn’t have enough knowledge and experience in assembling. Also, by making tensegrity which is very hard to make, I felt my knowledge was insufficient to succeed in the first trial. Next time, I think I should have researched to make the product perfect in the first trial since some product doesn’t have a second opportunity.