[2 vehicles ] letting our modified lanterns go!!!

#2 the short lantern

With this lantern i made it so it was alot shorter than when it had come out of the package and thought it would be interesting to see how this will go.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GPz0MyJKGE&feature=g-upl

This pretty much failed as it couldn't catch enough heat to let itself fly to the sky.

#3 The directional lantern

This lantern I wanted to see if i could control the direction of the lantern to make it go where i wanted it to go. Done with a piece of wire so that it won't burn off

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlKfFeIJ_DU&feature=g-upl

One problem was that the wire wasn't long enough and the other was the it would probably go where the wind lead it rather than my piece of wire.

#3 The half seaweed half paper lantern

This lantern was a success as it had enough air, the wind was very nice to it and the seaweed was light and air tight enough to lift itself up.

The only thing however my attempt to not let it fly off so much failed and the tugging of the wire lead the fire to get too close to the paper.

(Sorry for the chinese in the background, was communicating with the person holding the lantern )



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2isSGOuEkt0&feature=g-upl


Pretty much failed, for many reasons such as the large amount of space that needed to be heated up while only having a small piece of lighting, and the wind.

Fun to experience, hope you'll enjoy

[2 vehicles] testing of material - rice paper

Rice paper is stretchy when wet and has a glue-ish type feature to it so it will be easy to mould into a shape for our 'Modified Lantern' and it is quite light as well. This means that instead of having extra weight from the framing, we could easily use rice paper to shape it into the form we want.

                                                      before

after

'trying' to handle with care

The only bad thing about this is that it must be handled with care and after drying, it will be come very brittle and easy to break.

FIRE PROOF?

when becoming too close to the heat, the rice paper bubbles up and becoming an even more brittle source of material. But the good thing is it does not easily catch on fire.