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pasithea5 days until we leave for Burning Man and almost no projects are completely finished.
The solar still/gray water reclaimer is more or less done, just needs a cheap funnel. It's probably the only thing that will work. :(
My wind turbine failed its initial start-up tests due to 1) A lack of wind and 2) a very non-round swivel hook. In retrospect, my design here was kind of stupid as the swivel and the motor = 2 friction points. I think I can salvage the design by turning it upside down and having only 1 friction point. The only good thing here is that this will work because of another thing I didn't design fully that took a little engineering to compensate for. I hadn't really worked out attaching the generator to the struts. I assumed I could get the gear off the shaft and just connect the shaft. When it turned out I couldn't, I had to take a somewhat different approach. I eventually went with a soft linkage. It's a bit of re-enforced rubber hose held on with pipe clamps. I hadn't put the generator at the top originally due to the torque of side to side motion, but this soft linkage solves that problem, so I think just inverting the structure will work out. Hopefully there will be enough wind tonight I might test that.
Solar shades aren't binding properly. Nothing sticks to mylar... Well. One thing does. Hot glue. So now we're in the time-consuming process of using dots of hot glue to laminate the insulator layers. plus all these pieces still need to be sewn together.
Solar evaporator camp toilet has all the design disagreements worked out and all the parts, just needs the rest of it assembled.
Solar oven not officially designed, not built. Probably abandoned at this point.
Signpost Squid is designed and parts are collected, just needs to be built, wired, and skinned.
Solar-powered automatic hotdog cooker probably abandoned for this year.
Solar-powered personal cooling system... Got screwed on ebay, lacks part now. :(
Fish-bike has all parts but I'm skeptical I'll have time to build it.
Various costume bits are totally unstarted due to 'important' projects taking precedence.
Meh. By the time I get to Burning Man, I'm probably just going to want to sleep all week.
The solar still/gray water reclaimer is more or less done, just needs a cheap funnel. It's probably the only thing that will work. :(
My wind turbine failed its initial start-up tests due to 1) A lack of wind and 2) a very non-round swivel hook. In retrospect, my design here was kind of stupid as the swivel and the motor = 2 friction points. I think I can salvage the design by turning it upside down and having only 1 friction point. The only good thing here is that this will work because of another thing I didn't design fully that took a little engineering to compensate for. I hadn't really worked out attaching the generator to the struts. I assumed I could get the gear off the shaft and just connect the shaft. When it turned out I couldn't, I had to take a somewhat different approach. I eventually went with a soft linkage. It's a bit of re-enforced rubber hose held on with pipe clamps. I hadn't put the generator at the top originally due to the torque of side to side motion, but this soft linkage solves that problem, so I think just inverting the structure will work out. Hopefully there will be enough wind tonight I might test that.
Solar shades aren't binding properly. Nothing sticks to mylar... Well. One thing does. Hot glue. So now we're in the time-consuming process of using dots of hot glue to laminate the insulator layers. plus all these pieces still need to be sewn together.
Solar evaporator camp toilet has all the design disagreements worked out and all the parts, just needs the rest of it assembled.
Solar oven not officially designed, not built. Probably abandoned at this point.
Signpost Squid is designed and parts are collected, just needs to be built, wired, and skinned.
Solar-powered automatic hotdog cooker probably abandoned for this year.
Solar-powered personal cooling system... Got screwed on ebay, lacks part now. :(
Fish-bike has all parts but I'm skeptical I'll have time to build it.
Various costume bits are totally unstarted due to 'important' projects taking precedence.
Meh. By the time I get to Burning Man, I'm probably just going to want to sleep all week.
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Date: 2008-08-19 04:46 pm (UTC)Meh. By the time I get to Burning Man, I'm probably just going to want to sleep all week."
Oh I doubt that! Burning Person is going to light you on fire!
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Date: 2008-08-19 04:58 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2008-08-19 07:36 pm (UTC)One minor problem is that if it gets *too* hot, the cardboard will start to burn (451F, yay books). But turning the acrylic so the air can vent fixes that.