12. Eventually I gave up
Hand milled aluminum and made it beautiful,
even though it meant
and brass blowing the deadline.
13. Tools learned over
eight months...
Router, hand saw, table saw chop
saw, hammer, mallet, other mallet,
drill, cordless drill, bit, countersink
bit, plate bit, hole saw, table router,
pencil, ruler, carpenter's square,
mill, lathe, rasp, belt sander,
multimeter, cable stripper, grinder,
3D printer, laser cutter, prototyping,
The Internet, MSDS.
14. Conclusions jumped
to...
• Testing proves it works
• It is very beautiful
• It is heinously dangerous,
though a lot less than people
think, and for different reasons.
• Project completion date is fall
2012
• Prototyping is expensive. Rapid
prototyping is more expensive,
faster.
15. Thank Yous
• The Awesome Foundation! This
would not be possible without
people laughingly handing over
a sack of money for a dream of
questionable repute.
• The Firefly Festival for giving me
somewhere to exhibit.
• Mariko Tamaki, Doug Speck,
Erika Kiessner, Seth Hardy, my
wonderfully patient urban
family, and all of Site 3
coLaboratory. (http://
www.site3.ca)
Home sweet gnome.
The rainbow gun taught me that if you have a insane enough idea, someone will probably want to help.\n\nApplying for the awesome foundation grant was very easy and low pressure - a google form. I wouldn't have done it otherwise, because grants are bullshit. You have to do way too much work convincing arts administrators that the art is a good idea, and even then, they'd rather give the money to a safe bet. Anyone would. Research grants don't guarantee results, because they're for research: the awesome foundation is clever that way. They just want to make things more interesting, with plausible deniability on top.\n