The Peacock!

Always good luck to see a peacock before Burning Man.

Omen?

Pods Under the Map

First under pass test!

Triton and Brittany

And we're off!

Where there once was bus Is now cars.

Final touches

Thank you Dad.

Dad,

Years ago you started me on the path that has led to my current career in construction. Thank you for teaching me what you know. Thank you for teaching me to appreciate hard work. Thank you for all YOUR hard work on the Death Star.

Love,
Your son

P.S. It is very good practice to put your name on your "plans". :)
P.P.S. For liability reasons it is even better practice to put your name on them using removable blue tape!

Triton says things are going well

Back seats are in!

Given we have to just screw in one more, but the holes are drilled for easy installation! Woot!

Pulling tubes

Laser Play

Seats going in.

Fabric fit up. Back door hold open.

Final weekend working.

Ben on outside curtain support and parts. Greg and i working on octagon sphere support. Johnny Mac working on windows (we kinda crushed the tracks putting up unistrut) Pods on speakers.

Dear broken window

You're fixed. Go play with the other windows now.

Sincerely,
Pods

Window Workers

JMac on scene

Taking care of the windows.

Stereo is a go-go

Look at that mounting. It's like Bearenstein Bears meets technology.

We have a back door!

Given there's no wall to hold you out, but it's awesome! Thanks Jim!

Top Octagon

Getting there. Its much more difficult than we thought. But that's the fun, right? Right? No? Okay.

And we have sound!

Stereo and speakers hooked up and working! Still need to tweak everything but it's working.

Triton is a mad scientist (every time I see him working more lights/controls are working!)

And we have indoor power!!!!

Generator holder is in!

Late night session

Working by lights must be getting close to deadline

Getting to the last of it! Called in reinforcements, thanks Greg, Travis and my Dad for tonight. Got a lot of critical items crossed of the list: rooftop sand (for slipping) inside braces, generator housing in the spare tire compartment, dad figuring out the rear wall!

The greatest tool ever.

Ever. Pops, you need one of these!

Sand Painting

Found the Engine

Railings are done!!

Day 17: Railings almost complete

Have to get the right bolts for a couple of connections, but otherwise we are good!  Thanks to Emerson for helping out.

Triton made our sound board work and now we have EL for the laser beam!!

Day 16: Laser Mount

Day 16: 2/5 Dome with Laser Mock-up

Day 16: Building the Dome!

Day 16: Dan building the dome at a strip mall?

I go to grab Starbucks and this is what I return to.

Day 15: Dan Grinding

Day 15: All Pressed

Day 15: production rates

282 pieces total (4 spares of each segment)

Tritons cutting rate = 54 pieces an hour
Dan and Pods pressing rates = 102 pieces an hour.
Drilling TBD
Bending TBD
Spray Paint ends TBD (maybe tomorrow)

Day 15: conduit for sphere cutting station (triton in action)