{"id":2234,"date":"2008-08-22T10:35:49","date_gmt":"2008-08-22T18:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/?p=2234"},"modified":"2008-08-22T10:35:49","modified_gmt":"2008-08-22T18:35:49","slug":"swarm-progress-off-to-burning-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2008\/08\/22\/swarm-progress-off-to-burning-man\/","title":{"rendered":"SWARM Progress, Off to Burning Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow morning I&#8217;m on my way to <a href=\"http:\/\/burningman.com\">the desert<\/a> for a week of craziness. Be back next Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been working <em>a lot<\/em> on SWARM.<\/p>\n<p>In the last few weeks I:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>complied the audio tracks for the sound system (a mix of editing, creating, and working with a <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.orbswarm.com\/index.php?title=Remote_Control\">novel sound playback system<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>fixed up the 6 sound modules&#8230; swapped out a bad amp, adjusted volumes on all of them, installed new firmware drivers for the mp3 players<\/li>\n<li>made 2 new chargey plugs (some were lost)<\/li>\n<li>tested batteries<\/li>\n<li>installed IMUs (inertial measurement units) in 6 orbs: cut stainless steel pieces to be mounts, tapped holes (a PITA, I couldn&#8217;t finish, grr), welded in place, sprayed IMUs with clear paint, mounted, made ribbon cables, cut holes for cables<\/li>\n<li>made gussets to reinforce the arms of the canopy on the mothership<\/li>\n<li>helped manage arrangements with Virgin Festival (though they bagged at the last minute, jerks) (Niladri ran point and did a lot!)<\/li>\n<li>managed getting insurance for Virgin Festival (that we didn&#8217;t need because they bagged at the last minute, jerks)<\/li>\n<li>had lots of meetings and discussions to figure out exactly how to get our art to the Virgin Festival in Canada. (Dawn did a LOT of work. She&#8217;s become an international shipping expert overnight)<\/li>\n<li>Kept up with SWARM&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.orbswarm.com\/index.php?title=In_The_Media\">In the Media<\/a> updates<\/li>\n<li>Got 1\/2 way though (fimed, partially edited) creating a video piece for Make TV<\/li>\n<li>Kept up with our finances. We continue to be in the black.<\/li>\n<li>Went to a lawyer with Dawn to talk about licensing &amp; patenting SWARM<\/li>\n<li>A million little tasks like keeping our shop space livable with a cadre of messy mechatrons running around in it, finding new boxes for Virgin took 1hr+, paint for the IMUs 1hr+, ordering TIG supplies 1hr, finding a good deal on rechargable batteries and chargers for the remotes 1hr, &#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow morning I&#8217;m on my way to the desert for a week of craziness. Be back next Tuesday. I&#8217;ve been working a lot on SWARM. In the last few weeks I: complied the audio tracks for the sound system (a mix of editing, creating, and working with a novel sound playback system) fixed up the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}