BRC Pics posted on picasa

http://picasaweb.google.com/uberscientist/BurningMan2008#

Just some of the better pictures from the burn!

May upload some video sometime

Back from the burn

Yep, survived ,had a crazy (read excellent) time. Got to see Sasha and Anne Shulgin! (pictured) Met many interesting people, partied for 24 hours and watched the sunrise once, saw some Bismuth crystals, did some vocal chanting healing, drank a variety of mixed drinks and tried scotch for the first time, danced my butt off, painted some picture, formatted one of my camera's memory cards by accident (recovering media right now) , fought in the THUNDERDOME and did many other things that have probably slipped my mind for the moment... one hell of a "arts and crafts show" as my grandma kept calling it, I should just show her the list of events, haha! More pics coming probably.

Time for a little rest.

Pictures of things for burning man

This is what my packing looks like right now, hmmm gonna take inventory and get a meal plan!







Got some ruffles on my coat and added an Albert Hoffman stencil (Thanks to http://artsycrap.deviantart.com/)

Shopping, building for the burn

I got the VU meter on a piece of PCB, the picture on the veroboard before wasn't a functioning unit, I made a mistake going straight to soldering the unit, without breadboarding it first. The pictures is of the unit when it was almost done, I strapped a 9v battery on with a zip tie and added a switch for on/off. I then zip tied it to the front wheel of my bike, it looks pretty cool, I tried taking some video but you really can't see much.

I also took a trip to savers and got some playa clothings, went to target and spent the rest of my giftcard on medicines (like tums and tylenol and pepto) also went to walgreens and got a 3 pack of rubbers, just in case something AWESOME happens and a box of top so I can roll some party cigs :)

Leaving on Saturday!

Show video and playa bike update

I borrowed my dad's dremel tool and got the PVC elbow's inside diameter to fit the bike's handle bars (which will be epoxied) I will drill a little hole in the elbow and run the wire out to the solar panel in the middle of the handlebars which will be secured with zip ties and probably duct tape :-P

The show last night went very well, met Chris of yatagarasu, very cool fellow really enjoyed his highly energetic performance! Talked to the coitus and got to look at some of his instruments, I really liked his strobe + squarewave oscillator instrument that had a photocell resistor on it, it was build into a flashlight casing, very nice! Melted cassettes broke my eardrum (not really) but that's not a bad thing, manzareeeta~ cool UV patterns all over.

Well here's the video my sister took of my performance:



I also got a large chunk of PCB board from the shack today, going to be soldering up the VU meter on that for spoke mounting :)

Another project

I was thinking of attaching a microphone stimulated VU meter to the spokes of my playa bike, so I ordered the parts a few days ago, and got them in the mail today.

I started putting one together, I'm not following any instructions in particular, I sure hope it works :-/

I guess it will be an experiment! Also put together another LSDJ-MC2, I'll only be using it in sync mode in the show...since I only have 1 gameboy.
I don't know why the pics are sideways.

Virgin Burners Meeting

So I got a ride to the virgin burners meeting, for burning man (thanks Lynne!). It was pretty cool, got me exposed to the burning man community (in more way than one :D ) and got to shake hands drink a few brews, get some heart burn from some spicy salsa. It was great to see so many confident people, just chilling out, pretty great.

Pretty good day today, not sure what else to say :)