Much thanks to everyone who lent a hand, came to a fundraiser event,made a sequence, bought a hoodie, and helped spread the word! The Pyrosphere was truly a community accomplishment!
Thanks for making it happen,
Erin B
The PyroSphere Crew
Erin Banwell- creator, director, conceptual design, R&D, flame effects, fundraising coordinator
Chris Nowak- Structural Manager, design, heavy [...]
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We have been so busy for last month, I haven’t had time to tell you all what we’ve been up to. We are still super busy so I’m just going to give you a photo update. Enjoy!
Plumbing and Wiring:
This was a monumental task and took much longer than we expected. We pulled 400 ft of [...]
It’s finally arrived! The Pyrosphere Sequencer Program by Zeke! Zeke spent many a sleepless night working out this squencer like a total rockstar.
We want YOU! …to make a sweet ass fire sequence that we can use at Burning Man 2010! Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to pump out as many amzing [...]
This year at Burning Man NEXUS is bringing it bigger than ever and we need your help – we need you to come to a sick party in San Francisco and rock out on the dance floor to some of our favorite DJs – think you can do that?
This is all in [...]
While we have been busy building the physical structure for the PyroSphere, Steve Cronberg, our head programmer, has been hard at work in Portland prototyping the custom remote control that will control the PyroSphere’s fiery patterns.The remote is able to control which pattern is running, how long each frame of the pattern is, how long [...]
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This weekend we put together the sphere. Nathan, Julie, Robert, Chris, Mike, Megan, Nate, Vaughn, and Erin B got together under the hot sun in a big grassy field and assembled the 23′ geodesic sphere.
We started at the top.
Which happened to be on
the ground.
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After much delay, we were finally able to test run the first set of 9 valves with propane . Just some simple patterns. This is less than 1/10th of the valves that will be on the PyroSphere!
2010 Nexus Burning Man Camp!
The PyroSphere crew has been hard at work for the last few days. Steve Cronberg, the head programmer has been making major changes and adding major functionality to the code, while Erin Banwell, Vaughn Parsons, David Ampersand, and Nathan Crane have been plumbing up 9 valves onto a section of the finished sphere.
Plumbing:
The sphere is [...]
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