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Received Kit BOM from Jeff. Will incorporate this and all step-b-step documentation into Dozuki | |||
http://devel.lulzbot.com/TAZ/3.0/production_docs/TAZ_3.0-BOM-Kit.ods | |||
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Spoke with Century LInk about canceling internet at Farm. Difficult and expensive to do. We are on a two year contract so we are obligated to pay $200/line to cancel. Reducing service is not a significant savings. | |||
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Revision as of 14:21, 7 January 2014
Thursday January 2, 2014
Tuesday December 31, 2013
Received Kit BOM from Jeff. Will incorporate this and all step-b-step documentation into Dozuki
http://devel.lulzbot.com/TAZ/3.0/production_docs/TAZ_3.0-BOM-Kit.ods
Monday Dec 30, 2013
Spoke with Century LInk about canceling internet at Farm. Difficult and expensive to do. We are on a two year contract so we are obligated to pay $200/line to cancel. Reducing service is not a significant savings.
Sunday Dec 29, 2013
Created Smartsheet for 3DP Workshops
https://app.smartsheet.com/b/publish?EQBCT=ed872b0a1a034cd79a01f07d3217a953
3D Printing Workshop Development Spreadsheet
Sat Dec 21, 2013 - Sat Dec 28, 2013
Extensive research and planning for 3D Printing workshops.
http://www.3dprinterworldexpo.com/ January 31-February 1 here in Burbank
Communication with Jeff Moe regarding the OHAI Kits.
Main note from Jeff:
"The kits are still a ways off.
We are building many machines right now. We recently finished all our back orders and have 43 boxed up on hand ready to ship. We can build 10+ machines a day. We did 14 on Friday. This batch is around 420 machines.
We are ordering for 512 more machines for assembly. We will likely order all the kit parts at that time. It can take awhile for it all to arrive, maybe March. By that time, we will have a new area of our factory floor laid out where we will be building the kits. The kits will be minimal versions with low cost in mind, so they likely won't include parts like the LCD. I don't have a BOM handy, but I mailed our CTO to get it and we'll put it on the devel server. Lets us know what ideas you may have for the kit itself.
Do you know how many kits you'll want to start with? Any projections for how many for the coming months?
If you or anyone else at Open Source Ecology would like to come out and go through our system to learn it, we are open to that.
Thanks,
-Jeff"
Friday Dec 20, 2013
Several hours at Emily's office with Emily and Ian working through the website.
Thur Dec 19, 2013
Meetings with Emily Aiken and Ian Hilton on new website. In person work session on Friday.
Saturday Dec 14, 2013 - Wed Dec 18, 2013
Factor e Farm 2014 planning sessions with Marcin and Chris
Worked with Sam on 3D printer workshop plan - Lulzbot connection establish to build kits and offer design background and more importantly, solid advice on using and troubleshooting the machine.
Thursday Dec 12, 2013
Developed Smartsheet for Schedule/Website/SEO/College Tours
Tue Dec 10, 2013
Wheaton College - first formal summer internship program, being submitted. $3k for travel + OSE. Norton, Mass.
Friday, December 6, 2013
1.5 hour meeting with Yann on Microcar. Preparing Google doc...
Meeting with Josh Hancock and Emily Aiken about Microcar. Preparing Google doc on all of above
Thursday, December 5, 2013
Long planning session with Chris
Re-cut Shuttleworth video to include new trencher footage:
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Wednesday, December 4, 2013
Excellent lunch with new marketing director at Petersen Automotive Museum. He's totally on board with Microcar. New plan formulating based on his ideas.
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
Met with web/SEO expert today and discussed website. Clear we must upgrade the site NOW. Putting together info right away. Report to come
Monday, December 2, 2013
Editing the Shuttleworth video for the last few days.
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Tuesday, November 26, 2013
Worked with Scott on Dozuki, Trovebox and Premiere (editing). His stuff looks great.
Editing 2013 Review video.
Monday, November 25, 2013
Full focus on 2013 in Review video.
Wednesday, November 20, 2013
Powerpoint presentation for Engineers meeting
Trenchers tiimelapses with music and titles - Rotor and Disk
Tuesday, November 26, 2013
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Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Continue realtime documentation of trencher.
Good long meeting with Emily Aiken about overall social media and OS Car.
Excellent information at Crowdfunding seminar last night. Adam Chapnick, principal at indidgogo very interested in Open Source Car
Ran into old friend who teaches architecture at USC, Mina Chow. Very interested in hearing more about OSE and Microhouse
Monday, November 18, 2013
continue realtime documentation
Invited to crowd funding seminar tonight
Sunday, November 17, 2013
Successful realtime documentation of Trencher wheel unit
Dozuki guide started
Saturday, November 16, 2013
Sprint focusing on Trencher build. Setup realtime documentation plan with Trovebox and Dozuki.
Created photos of Lifetrac 6 wheel units from video and setup Dozuki rough How-to
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
New direction for Microhouse commercial. continued organizing the 17++ hours of footage for whatever script we decide on.
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Revised Microhouse commercial script. Chris recorded the VO and I cut it into the Editing Project. Runs about 2:30
Organizing and preparing the Microhouse footage for Commercial and other uses... documentary...other promos
Monday, November 11, 2013
Begin scripting Microhouse commercial with Chris
Recorded version of the script and created an MP3 edited voiceover (with my voice)
Saturday, November 9, 2013
Lasersaur build documentation
Determining Documentation priorities for upcoming weeks. Would like input. - info below listed at http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Video_Wish_List
PENDING VIDEO PRODUCTIONS and Documentation Projects
Microhouse Commercial
Locate and Post Wheel Unit Stills (or create stills from video)
Feature Jean-Baptiste in a Blog post as our new Lead Graphics Designer
Post Emmett animations
Located Microhouse site clearing footage - create stills and post.
Organize Trovebox into "modules" for Microhouse etc.
Microhouse "documentary"
Edit 40 Minute Lifetrac 6 Cab Module tape into short Step-by-Step guide as POC
All Shot Tapes and Cards quickly edited and posted to Latakoo. Pending tapes: Lifetrac 6 - 7 Hours OSBG Build - 9 Hours 6 in 60 - 11 Hours Microhouse - 17 Hours (approximately 3 hours of Backhoe mixed in)
- Also Emmett shot approximately 30% beyond these numbers for Lifetrac 6 and Microhouse
Hydaulics 101 - add visuals - Popcorn and chalkboard style.
50 Machines Series - A short "2 Minute" video on each of the 50 machines. What is it?. Why chosen? End uses. Design Concept. Status.
Welding Instruction - Shoot with John.
- Explore EXPLAINER STYLE videos/graphics for all productions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explainer_video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtclcWGG7WQ&feature=fvstc
These are a couple a friend has done, but don't think he can afford to do these on a volunteer basis... maybe he can "consult"
Friday, November 8, 2013
Lasersaur build documentation
Good talks with Yann on the Hangout about OS Car. I ran across this other OS Car Project and discussed it with Yann. Interesting, but not a very forward thinking design. Could be an alternative for a larger option:
Been speaking with Emily about social media strategy. She does have a plan worked out. We should talk with her and Chris soon.
Thursday, November 7, 2013
Lasersaur build documentation.
Worked with Chris on scripting and prep for revised Microhouse commercial.
Saturday, November 2, 2013 - Wednesday November 6, 2013
Lasersaur build documentation.
Friday, November 1, 2013
Lasersaur Documentation prep - I used Trovebox App on my iPhone to take photos... uploaded to Laser Cutter Trovebox Album. At the same time I made them Public and simply typed the Name (Step 1) into the Title field.
In an App called Voice Memos if recorded the Step Info and emailed the files (I emailed one to you). The files are automatically named with the time.
Then I transferred all the info and photos to Dozuki.
http://opensourceecology.dozuki.com/Guide/Installing+Module+-+Photo+test+Photos+for+Build/95
Simple and really organized... and hopefully fail safe.
Toured possible dedicated area at CVS for Microcar event
http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/File:CVS_space.JPG
Thursday, October 31, 2013
Rob - can you break up all the microhouse pix into MODULE TAGS (about 10 relevant ones of them) by Bulk Edit? Then I can link to them from the Development Boards. Yes, I created a bunch of new ones yesterday by making stills from the video. I'm going through all of it Friday and will tag.
Put together a "beauty" timelapse of the Microhouse that can be used as a background for "sales" or other messages... or just for fun
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Working on tweaking of Microhouse Host text.
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Webinar test with ESW. Video runs poorly and so does prezi. Probably should convert to Powerpoint for this webinar.
Long meeting today with Ray Claridge, the founder of Cinema Vehicle Services. He's on board to let us use his incredible facility for the build.
Everything we'd ever need from mechanical, to body, to upholstery, and beyond. They can fabricate the body and provide an wide array of experts. Great story of these crusty old pros interacting with Yann and Marcin.
http://cinemavehicles.com/services.asp
Thinking we can build there and then drive the car to the Museum for a final unveiling event and perhaps the historic car stays there for awhile.
Next stop, meeting at the Petersen Museum. --- Need to determine how best to use CVS and the Museum so everyone benefits. Seems the Museum really gets us help with sponsors and supports the educational mission.
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Worked with Chris on Dozuki setup
Backhoe timelapses - not sure if they show all the correct info
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Monday, October 28, 2013
Sunday, October 27, 2013
Edited Ironworker realtime video
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Saturday, October 26, 2013
Realtime Documentation Build of Ironworker. Dozuki, Trovebox, Video. Huge success.
Thursday, October 24, 2013
Editing a Microhouse summary video now that Chris can use in a presentation tomorrow.
This will be a preliminary summary video for us, but I'll add more info and interview. Here's the Rough Cut
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Wednesday, October 23, 2013
Completed the first video in a new series I'm calling the OSE Realtime Build Series. These are "raw" videos that let viewers experience a GVCS Build as it happens.
It's basically a cutdown of our raw videotapes, uploaded to the Latakoo public site. The videos are full resolution so they can be used to edit other videos later.
https://opensourceecology.latakoo.com/v/?176263 (let me know of the link works)
I've made a "breakthrough" on Latakoo, working with their technical people and doing uploads on a Mac Mini computer instead of my usual old Mac.
A file that previously took 6 hours to upload has been reduced to 1.5 hours. That's what I hoped for in the beginning.
This Realtime video is a cutdown of a 1 hour tape, edited down to 40 minutes. It took 1.5 hours to edit, 1 hour to output, then 1:10 to upload. All good numbers. --- This specific tape is an excellent model of how we should be shooting the builds, if we have work instructions ready. The audio annotation along the way creates a good "how-to"
Mac Mini - version used for this upload
2011 Model - 2.3 GHz Intel Core i5 - 2GB Memory
New versions that I recommend OSE purchases as follows:
http://store.apple.com/us/buy-mac/mac-mini
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Worked on Microhouse build. Executive staff meeting... then travelled back to Los Angeles.
Monday, October 21, 2013
Completed video of the Finishing Touches we're adding to the Microhouse.
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Sunday, October 20, 2013
ADD BACKHOE VIDEO
Building Microhouse
Saturday, October 19, 2013
Building Microhouse
Friday, October 18, 2013
Made final tweaks to Prezi for Feast
Building Microhouse
Thursday, October 17, 2013
Cody and I are working our way through complete Dozuki documentation of Backhoe. Very time consuming to get it right.
Completed new version of Prezi for Feast. Editing a new Microhouse 40 second "sizzle" for the Feast prezi.
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Wednesday, October 09, 2013
Worked on Feast prezi. Sent possible plan to trim to 6 minutes to Marcin.
Shifted gears from Microhouse sizzle to Lifetrac 6 Dozuki documentation for Shuttleworth
Continue digitizing of Microhouse footage
Tuesday, October 08, 2013
Completed Raise the Roof video
Continuing digitizing of Microhouse footage.
Monday, October 07, 2013
Tested screen capture Sketchup animation. Worked with Emmett to determine best professional tool. iShowU is the right choice with HD quality and optimization for 3D programs.
Uploaded video from Lifetrac 6 shoot for Emmett to reference on Cab animation.
Prepping video and Marcin's script for Microhouse 3 minute sizzle.
Saturday, October 05, 2013
Design Sprint - Excellent sessions all around. Very interested in Microcombine with Dorn and Leonardo's interest in it for Columbia.
Tuesday, October 1, 2013 - Friday, October 4, 2013
Long hours on Microhouse build. Great progress. Several timelapse videos:
Monday, September 30, 2013
Excellent build day on Microhouse. Floor complete and walls continue to grow.
Sunday, September 29, 2013
Microhouse goes vertical. First walls and beginning of bricks.
Josh Hancock met with owners of Cinema Vehicle Services and they are very excited about working on the OS Car.
Saturday, September 28, 2013
Travel to Farm
Microhouse Shoot carpentry work in shop. Excellent crew and progress.
Repair LT6 for Pulverizer work on Sunday
Friday, September 27, 2013
Excellent meeting with Josh Hancock about our "International OS Car." Discussed shop issue and it turns out Petersen has a shop but need to research how complete it is. Also discussed involving Cinema Vehicle Services. Fantastic shop and excellent overall support people and interested in good promotion.
http://cinemavehicles.com/services_icon_fabrication.asp
Need to avoid timing conflict with Detroit auto show in January. 18-26
Thursday, September 26, 2013
Building Step by Step video for LTR6 cab module... using Sketchup as section reference then showing the reality in the build.
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
Completed LTR6 Test Drive Video
Setup "Group" for uploading stills to Trovebox. Called MicroHouse 2013. Allows uploads to MicroHouse Album as well as New Uploads album.
Tuesday, September 24, 2013
Travel back to Burbank
Began digitizing of LTR6 footage
Began editing of LTR6 Test Drive video
Monday, September 23, 2013
Competed Feast prezi and sent off. Still needs some writing with Marcin.
Worked 8 hours with Marcin on Micro House foundation prep.
Staying a KC airport tonight for very early flight. Plan to return Friday.
Sunday, September 22, 2013
Went to Cameron early for fluid. Tractor drove really well.
Worked on Feast prezi
Help Marcin get started on Micro House prep.
Saturday, September 21, 2013
Long day... until 3am but everything went well with build...just many little things added up. Was complete and ready to drive but we didn't have enough hydraulic fluid.
Friday, September 20, 2013
Much smoother sailing on today's build. Wheel mounts went on cleanly, pivot worked well, rolling chassis complete, hydraulics started.
Thursday, September 19, 2013
Long build until about 2am. In my view, need group discussion regarding fit within wheel mounts and hubs. Many hours dealing with impossible tight fits. Forced to use 7/8" bolts on wheel mounts. -- No way to estimate how long these processes are taking because of these problems... but perhaps can create tips for builders in the future.
Showed Emmett how to create time lapses in Adobe Premiere and he created the ones so far.
POST LINK
Began work on Feast Prezi but deadline moved... best if have quick chat with Marcin.
Wednesday, September 18, 2013
Shoot LTR 6
Worked on building of Wheel Mounts to better understand the complexity for documentation.
Bought Grade 8 bolts at Early Tractor in Cameron. Good resource for parts.
Brad at D-Tone is exploring paid workers for us, if needed. Explain that it would be minimum wage ($7+/hour). He'll contact Audrey with leads.
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Shoot LTR 6
UPDATE SPREADSHEET.
Received script from Marcin for Universal Rotor video.
ADD SCRIPT HERE
Spoke with Josh, new Manager at D-Tone, while buying tires. He told me about Chillicothe Iron & Steel. Could be new resource for metal and metalwork.
About one hour east.
http://chillicotheironandsteel.com/
Monday, September 16, 2013
Shoot LifeTrac 6 begins. Excellent work from Emmett and detailed documentation of Cab build, working closely with Work Instructions.
Developed spreadsheet of man hours required to build sections.
ADD SPREADSHEET
Sunday, September 15, 2013
Travel to Farm
Saturday, September 14, 2013
Design Sprint all day. Good sessions on Universal Rotor...will develop video... and OS Car including Yann and his associate Cyril as well as the team from 100km 1 litre
Thursday, September 12, 2013
Exploring Rapid Prototyping using scale models to aid in design and video instructionals
ADD PAGE
Further work on OS Car event in LA
ADD PAGE
Wednesday, September 11, 2013
Hi Res upload of New Orleans video. Uploading to Vimeo and Latakoo as well.
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
Finalized New Orleans video with Owen. He's doing a high resolution output for final posting.
Met with Josh Hancock regarding Peterson Museum OS Car event.
GOALS:
Setup "Groups" on Trovebox
Cab instructional
Update LifeTrac 6 Dozuki
Fix videos on OSE website home page
Work out repository for OS music library
Monday, September 9 2013
Met with Don Cambou former Producer of Modern Marvels TV series. He's volunteering the help with writing. Briefed him on Google hangouts software and procedures.
Posted 6in60 video on OSE home page. Realized it's connected to Vimeo and will change the videos there.
Sunday, September 8, 2013
Updated Documentation section of PM for LifeTrac 6
Posted all Step Instructions for Documentation
http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Documentation_Step_Instructions
Trovebox has created Group function in Beta for us to use. Need to determine who we want to invite. Also need to give Trovebox feedback on Beta.
Saturday, September 7, 2013
Excellent response to notes by remote editor Owen Smithyman for OSBG/LT6 video.
Supplied him with graphics and fonts to complete video.
Ironed out some Latakoo technical issues.
Friday, September 6, 2013
Long talk with documentation DPV, Emmett
Notes to Owen on New Orleans video.
Thursday, September 5, 2013
https://opensourceecology.latakoo.com/latest/
Received New Orleans video from remote editor Owen Smithyman.
Wednesday, September 4, 2013
Completed Prezi
Long meeting with Jaisen at Trovebox about our specific needs. They are about to release a Group feature that will allow DPVs to upload etc.
Also we are able to embed our photos into wiki but going to the "Share" function on the photo and getting the embed code:
<a href="https://opensourceecology.trovebox.com/p/2/token-793c685e47">
<img src="http://awesomeness.openphoto.me/custom/201307/IMG_20130703_212102-12dcc2_800x800.jpg">
</a>
Soon the site will allow for visual customization, video support and the ability to customize the web addresss.
Tuesday, September 3, 2013
Worked on Prezi for Marcin's talk at OSH event.
Friday, August 30, 2013
Design Sprint all day
Setup Trovebox still photo Archive. Looks good
https://opensourceecology.trovebox.com/
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
Revised 6in60 video to include a couple of shots of LifeTrac 5 working in New Orleans.
Coordinated with remote editor Owen Smithyman to cut the LifeTrac New Orleans cell phone videos into a single, satisfying film. He's working on it now.
Worked with Jean-Baptiste to add infographics for Ironworker, Backhoe and Brick Press for Dozuki. Also asked him to compile bio info so we can do a blog about his role as Lead Graphic Designer... creating infographics and Dozuki module images as well as graphics for videos.
Editing Cab instructional
Step instructions, PM scheduling etc.
Tuesday, August 27, 2013
Editing test step-by-step instructional video on Cab module of LifeTrac 5. Interviewed Jordan Phoenix at the time in detail. Compared the Step Instruction model with the real world build. Video will reflect this work. - Then plan to move the info to a Dozuki Module guide with text, photo and video.
Working on step instructions for Development Board etc.
Back in contact with Joe Justice regarding car build and OSE interest.
Goals:
Previous Week:
Prep and begin test documentation of LifeTrac 5 cab for Dozuki and Instructional Video. WORKING ON IT NOW
Set up Open Photo as our "Latakoo" for stills (will find equivalent if not appropriate). COMPLETE BY END OF CURRENT WEEK
Write the Documentation step instructions for the new Matrix. WORKING ON IT NOW
Current Week:
Complete above goals from last week. (LifeTrac 5 instructional/Step Instructions/Still Archive)
Prep Dozuki for Gary's needs
Advance plans for car build
Monday, August 26, 2013
Final version of 6in60 Production Report video. PLEASE REVIEW.
Added new formatting of levels to Dozuki pages for Backhoe and Ironworker
http://opensourceecology.dozuki.com/c/Backhoe
http://opensourceecology.dozuki.com/c/Ironworker_Machine
Thursday, August 22, 2013
Coordinating with Jaisen at Open Photo on becoming our "latakoo" for stills. Now called Trovebox
Created new edit of 6in60 with improved music (still need to find more/better OS music) and new credits at end. Please review.
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Completed review cut of 6in60+tractor
Goals:
Prep and begin test documentation of LifeTrac 5 cab for Dozuki and Instructional Video. I shot a long interview with Jordan for this purpose on the Spark shoot.
Set up Open Photo as our "Latakoo" for stills (will find equivalent if not appropriate)
Write the Documentation step instructions for the new Matrix.
Tuesday, August 20, 2013
Starting editing at 4:30am. Looks good.
Excellent meeting at Petersen Automotive Museum with Josh Hancock. Looked at their 17,000 sq ft. permanent "tented" event structure. Ideal to create a great shop for a build. Excellent possibiites.
http://www.petersen.org/private-events/venues (pavillion and promenade)
Monday, August 19, 2013
Frustrating day of re-importing footage to editing and reconstruction Project file. Around 10pm back running.
Sunday, August 18, 2013
Researching wiki search engines. John Stager a big help...he added a test Google search to his Log. -- Discovered that Elifarley has already added a good Google search function as "Custom Search" on wiki. I didn't realize that was there! It would be great if it could have sorting by Date, like John's version has.
HORRIBLE CRASH OF MY EDITING PROGRAM.
Saturday, August 17, 2013
Excellent conversation with Josh Hancock about possible sponsorships for OS car build event. Will meet with him in person on Tuesday at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles.
Friday, August 16, 2013
Continued Planning session with Team
Researching other OS cars. Watched interesting video with Jay Rogers on "Jay Leno's Gararge" web series. Discovered that if the purchasers helps on the build it's much easier to register with Dept. Motor Vehicles - falls under "kit car" rules.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OetiD8rL1KU
Thursday, August 15, 2013
NEED BETTER PERSONAL PLAN FOR KEEPING UP LOG. NOW EVERY MORNING WILL "TEMP" IN MY DAY'S PLAN AS PROMPT FOR END OF DAY LOGGING. ALSO REVISE DURING THE DAY.
Received "lower third" bar from Jean. Need to learn/test inputting into edit
http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/File:OSE_titlebar_Marcin.jpg
Continued Planning session with Team
Design Sprint including call with Jann at Velocar. Excellent new information about the development status and strategy.
Editing and Music continues
Working with Audrey to develop "call for volunteers" to play at the end of all videos, etc. - Need language and decision of where to send interested people
Wednesday, August 14, 2013
Planning session with Executive Team on future state.
Reached out to longtime associate Josh Hancock for thoughts on tying open source car to "Detroit" Josh works connecting Detroit with Hollywood and is very well connected in the Auto Industry... awaiting response.
Re: Open Source Car eventl Looking at Agenda for Open Source Conference 2012. Been to many conferences on many topics but need to analyze and customize to our needs.
Main sessions with Breakout Sessions is obvious format:
http://www.opensourceconference.nl/agenda-2012
Editing......
GOALS FOR WEEK
LAST WEEK
Make revisions and post 6in60 video Part 1 - DONE, NOW WITH MARCIN'S VOICE - NEED TO REVISE MUSIC
Complete 6in60 video Part 2 (including OSBG tractor) - NOT DONE ADDING MARCIN'S VOICE WITH REVISION
Work with Team to complete Planning - ONGOING
Expecting Motherboard edit from Emily James - review and provide her final paperwork - REVIEWED EDIT - LOOKS GOOD
BASICALLY THIS IS COMPLETION OF LAST WEEK'S GOAL WITH ADDITIONAL OF MOTHERBOARD
THIS WEEK
Complete 6in60 as one video with Marcin's voice
Complete planning with Team
Complete initial plan/proposal for OS Car Event/Build
Complete all paperwork for Motherboard (new TED document)
Tuesday, August 13, 2013
Completed new cut of 6in60 Part 1 with Marcin's voice. Also trimmed overall
Marcin's notes relate to Music. Will comb Open Source libraries for new selections
Gathering research on Workshops and Seminars to model our events/educational/build Workshops.
Number of days for our event a huge question.
GOALS
Monday, August 12, 2013
Editing on 6in60. Received Marcin's voiceovers.
Will insert and trim Part I. Part 2 is extensive recut will take a few days.
Further thinking on Open Source Car event
So maybe it's framed as OSE putting on an International Symposium on Open Source Cars with invited guests, Jann, Justice, Rogers as well as maybe a Detroit type etc etc. It's also an OSE education and build session.
The event is the first in a series of OSE educational/build events. Others not as "big" as this, but this one introduces the concept.
Big event still the culmination of weeks of design work as we discussed. (maybe the idea is taking the best of open source work done so far and re-mixing it as the OSE car)
Perhaps becoming more "educational" focused can help us raise money from sponsors...as well as a revenue model for builds.
Like the idea of doing it in Detroit. Perhaps in a closed auto facility.
Sunday, August 11, 2013
Editing on 6in60.
Saturday, August 10, 2013
All day Design Sprint. Good day.
Lot's of help inputting module placeholders from Tibor and further honing Dozuki. Tractor - LifeTrac 6 now a good template.
http://opensourceecology.dozuki.com/c/LifeTrac
Excellent session regarding Collaboration Architecture. I see an Educational/Build event as a model for the future. Revenue model as well as a way to attract collaborators... leading to new build
Friday, August 9, 2013
Received notes from Vintage Harmonists with suggestions on better using their music
add notes
Also received notes from Remote Editor Milton with his thoughts on 6in60 rough cut
add notes
Modified Dozuki to reflect plan for LifeTrac 6. Goal to use this machine as template for future machines.
http://opensourceecology.dozuki.com/
Thursday, August 8, 2013
Hard Drive with Spark material finally arrived. A great deal of material. Inputing now into our system.
Editing of Part 2 continues
Working with Jean-Baptiste on ideas for unifying graphics for the videos... text presentation styles for ID of people etc.
Sent video to Vintage Harmonists for scoring discussion.
Put call out to our remote editors for help.
Wednesday, August 7, 2013
Received next cut of Motherboard video from Emily James. Looks good. Planned for release next week.
Part 2 of 6in60 video coming together... focus will be on "victories" won amidst the difficulties of the time and lack of materials.
Outlining the focus:
The Ironworker prototype went together in about 12 hours.
The Backhoe's Pivot, Stick, Boom and Bucket all went together well.
We made some good headway with the Tread for the Microtractor
We decided to delay the car so we could do it in collaboration with other OS car projects. (We're in negotiations now.)
Instead we jumped ahead and built a new version of our Lifetrac in collaboration with Our School at Blair Grocery, from New Orleans. The project will be featured in a new documentary called The Spark. -- This new design shares several modules and design features with our Bulldozer and Truck. This tractor also features a new diesel engine power cube.
Tuesday, August 6, 2013
Completed and posted 6in60 video Part 1
Script
Monday, August 5, 2013
Revised 6in60 Video. Shorten more than 2 minutes and added more timelapse to add energy.
Received music from Vintage Harmonists for video. Now needs to be edited in.
Reviewed Future State document and made small changes on documentation section.
GOALS FOR WEEK
Make revisions and post 6in60 video Part 1
Complete 6in60 video Part 2 (including OSBG tractor)
Work with Team to complete Planning
Expecting Motherboard edit from Emily James - review and provide her final paperwork
BASICALLY THIS IS COMPLETION OF LAST WEEK'S GOAL WITH ADDITIONAL OF MOTHERBOARD
Saturday, August 3, 2013
Good day at Design Sprint. Lots of technical progress on Torch Table, Hydrafabber and Welder.
Group helped input Dozuki placeholders for Marcin's list of modules for 26 of the GVCS. Worked with Jean-Baptiste on adding icons for most of the machines.
Problem again with exceeding 10 person limit. Began exploration of other option and collaborated with Katie.
http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Google_Hangout_Alternative - plus other commercial options:
join.me
gotomeeting.com
fuzebox.com
Above not OS but products allow for MANY users. lots of features. I noticed join.me has non-profit pricing
Need to pursue on Monday.
Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Skype call with Andy Heyward from Motherboard. He's editing Emily James' video piece and I've used Latakoo to get him material and he's successfully been able to view and download.
Posted the ROUGH CUT of Part I of the 6in60 story and will get feedback from the team to complete. Music is temporary and script needs to filled out. Also, want to get Marcin to narrate instead of me.
I'll share script via Google docs.
Sent the cut to Erik Miron, the musician, for scoring.
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Goals:
Last week was devoted to planning with the Team and editing 6in60 material. I didn't get as far as I wanted on the editing but it's moving ahead. The good news is that the Latakoo site is successfully being used by Remote Editors and the Transciption feature on the site works really well.
This week I will post the first major story coming out the 6in60 and will move forward on the second part of that video, that transitions to the OSBG tractor build. These will be honest accounts of the events, both good and bad.
Continue to prep and organize the Dozuki site with graphics and info.
Monday, July 29, 2013
Planning meetings with Team throughout the day.
More editing on 6in60...tedious.
Introduced Miguel into the graphics team. Now working with Jean-Baptiste on info graphics.
Sunday, July 28, 2013
Editing all day on 6in60 story. Slow going through the many hours of material. Remote editor, Owen Smithyman, edited a one-minute sequence using my notes and suggestions on footage on the Latakoo site. Latakoo worked perfectly after some troubleshooting. Milton Dixon was ready to help too but ran into technical issues that he needs to iron out. He'll be ready for the next round.
Saturday, July 27, 2013
Good Design Sprint. Excellent sessions on True Fans, Permafacture Seminar planning and Development platform. Seems most remote collaborators want a simple task oriented system without the confusion of the "big picture" issues. --- Seems to be attracted to simple task driven platforms like Mantis... although I think Project Manager can do it to.
Extremely interesting side Hangout with Fred Eisele and Robert Goeller regarding their software platforms. Scott, the DPV coming Tuesday will be bringing copies of the software and we should have a Hangout with our team and them to see the excellent demo they showed me. Very impressive simulations and more with our machines. They are interested in working with rapid developers who can test their software and willing to publish results.
Tremendous connection at end of Sprint with Alexander Dale, Executive Director at Engineers for a Sustainable World. Could be a fantastic resource.
Friday, July 25, 2013
Remote editing projects launched with Milton Dixon and Owen Smithyman. Gave them script material and recommended visuals from Latakoo system.
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Thursday, July 24, 2013
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Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - Wednesday, July 24, 2013
After Planning meetings with entire team, focus of Dozuki documentation platform has changed. Determined that the platform is not ideal for Development and we should concentrate on what it does best.
Dozuki will be a clear and attractive introduction to all 50 machines and their underlying Modules.
Also will include an obvious link to a separate Development/Design Dashboard, which will be a spreadsheet based platform that can handle Gary's detailed Development flowchart and the many iterations of the machine along the way.
When Build Instructions are ready they will be included in Dozuki through the terrific guides the platform offers.
Jean-Baptiste's Infographic and Module sketches will be featured throughout the Dozuki platform creating a unified and professional presentation.
Best structure example with Infographic is CNC Torch/Router Table: http://opensourceecology.dozuki.com/c/CNC_Circuit_Mill
Best Module sketches included with Backhoe http://opensourceecology.dozuki.com/c/Backhoe
Also was decided to make Jean-Baptiste our Lead Graphics Designer and find a team he can lead to achieve the many graphics needed for this Dozuki platform.
Monday, July 22, 2013
After discussions with Team this morning, shifted gears on Dozuki plan and trying to add detailed development sections leading to a separate CURRENT BUILD INSTRUCTIONS section.
So all the Versions are separated and traced but the current "how to" is clearly indicated. See the last machine in GVCS, "Z Test Machine", for working example. http://opensourceecology.dozuki.com/
Also note Jean-Baptiste's graphic at the bottom of the CNC Torch page. Very nice work.
Returning to video editing tonight. Back to Dozuki in morning... want feedback before continuing forward.
Sunday, July 21, 2013
Editing on 6in60 Video. Plan to make this a detailed informational video that tells a complete story. Maybe in two parts.
Working on detailed Dozuki example for next design sprint.
Saturday, July 20, 2013
Design Sprint all day Saturday. Good discussion on Dozuki as well as Tibor's wiki interface.
Tested Latakoo with Steph in Germany and Milton Dixon.
Put first videos on Latakoo video site. Need to talk to latakoo about adding graphics and other branding.
Friday, July 19, 2013
Confirmed two new Video Editor remote collaborators and signed them up for Latakoo sharing.
Milton Dixon - this was his original note:
I'd be interested in contributing to your project. I've made a fair number of videos for Midwest Permaculture, mostly weaving improvised clips into a narrative or editing recorded webinars into a finished product.
I use Vegas Pro, can create basic animations, can overlay any graphics, and am able to work in HD.
You can see my work on YouTube, I edited everything except for the bioneers video. http://www.youtube.com/user/MidwestPermaculture/videos
I could probably contribute a couple of hours a week.
Milton
Also Sean Maxwell - he edits for ToolCrete in Oregon, the manufacturer of the stucco sprayer used by OSE for the stucco application on the HabLab:
I'd like to find out if there are any opportunities to contribute as an editor or assistant editor for the latakoo documentation efforts? I have experience working as an editor using Final Cut and am very interested in making any contributions I can.
Thanks and I look forward to hearing from you.
Sean
Setup the Public video sharing site through Latako
https://opensourceecology.latakoo.com/
Will customize site with our graphics and populate with our videos. Would like to discuss best plans for site.
Thursday, July 18, 2013
Digitizing footage from Tractor build and uploading to Latakoo. Developing somewhat faster upload scheme by first moving footage to local drive. System is acceptable speed but not what I hoped for. Problem may be with my older Mac.
Testing Latakoo downloads with editor Bob Shontell. Experiencing periodic crashing and need to consult with Latakoo tech team. Awaiting email response... will call tomorrow.
Beginning testing with remote editor Milton Dixon.
Spoke with Joe Justice. He is going to fill in the details of the Modules and modified interior module.
GOALS TOMORROW...WEEK WILL BE THRU WEEKEND
Wednesday, July 9 - July 17 2013
Travel to Farm and shot 8 hours of material during Tractor build. Conducted 6in60 and Motherboard interview with Marcin. Also shot timelapse footage.
Shot numerous stills for Dozuki pages.
Received response from Joe Justice. He wants to complete Phase One immediately then Phase Two in August.
Coordinated with remote editor Milton Dixon to join Latakoo.
Monday, July 8, 2013
Received new music for "6 in 60 Production Begins" video from Vintage Modernists jazz group (volunteering to write music for OSE). Recut the video in include new music and submitted back to them for notes. Will re-post Tuesday.
Reviewed Rizzoma software, in detail, with Jann from Velocar.
Skype call with Emily James in England regarding progress of Vice video. Moving along well. May need some shots and soundbites when I return to Farm this week.
Goals for last week:
Digitize and upload to Latakoo all 6in60 footage shot through July 3rd - (will need to do this at home) - Footage digitized and logged onto master Drobo drive.
11 hours of material tape from Sony Z1U camera plus 6 Canon camera cards and 2 GoPro timelapse camera cards. Material being uploaded to Latakoo.
Edit 2nd 6in60 video. Also will do at home - Need to discuss focus of video with team. Many options.
Enter 6in60 material in Dozuki - at least through web and hopefully app too. - Process begun, see Saturday July 6 log
Finalize Joe Justice agreement - Agreement submitted to Joe. Awaiting response.
Goals for this week:
Execute agreement with Joe Justice, if terms are satisfactory.
Cut another video from 6 in 60.
Add visuals and Popcorn to Hydraulics 101 video
Saturday, July 6, 2013
Excellent day with new format of Sprint hangout. Especially valuable with Dozuki session.
Discovered "Production Begins" video can't be viewed in some countries because of music rights. I knew this would be a potential problem....will stick with open source or equivalent music. Will fix with music coming from Vintage Modernists jazz group asap.
Friday, July 5, 2013
Submitted agreement draft to Joe Justice from Wikispeed. Spoke briefly with him on the phone to alert him it was coming.
Began ingesting of video from 6 in 60 shoot. Each videotape appears to be 12GB when digitized.
Wednesday, July 3, 2013
Filmed building of backhoe pivot. Travel back to Los Angeles.
Tuesday, July 2, 2013
Goals for last week:
Set up edit/production equipment at Factor e Farm - mostly accomplished but need much better internet to work with Latakoo and Dozuki. Also need a Mac to interface with hard drive, tools and programs. Probably will ship one of mine from home.
Edit first 6in60 video - Done
Production Collaborators Blog Post - Done
Goals for this week:
Digitize and upload to Latakoo all 6in60 footage shot through July 3rd - (will need to do this at home)
Edit 2nd 6in60 video. Also will do at home
Enter 6in60 material in Dozuki - at least through web and hopefully app too.
Finalize Joe Justice agreement
Sunday Jun 30, 2013
Built first video for 6in60 Production Begins.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhJndK9A06I&feature=player_embedded
Tuesday Jun 25, 2013= through =Saturday Jun 29, 2013
Extensive driving for materials pickups
Shot Mike Hill on plasma cutter in Garnett, KS
Created several test timelapse sequences. Lucas from Berea has excellent abilities on Canon camera and has been a tremendous help.
Shot 6in60 prep and building
Many difficulties with PC editing. Will ship a Mac from home for permanent edit room setup and Latakoo uploading.
Compiling notes on Wikispeed
Working with team to publish video blog post
Monday Jun 24, 2013
Began shooting for 6 in 60 final 10 days. Extensive coverage of meeting with team regarding Bulldozer and Truck. Interviewed Gary and Marcin about meeting and status.
Shot team revising sketchup models and exploding views for step by step build guides.
Revised Wikispeed agreement for review by Marcin, Gary and Adrian.
Met with Marcin about Kansas City run to pick up new tools and video gear.
Sun Jun 23, 2013
First day at farm. Great people! Worked with Chris to move my laptop from Ubuntu to Lubuntu. Better interface.
Set up video gear for shooting and editing.
Sat Jun 22, 2013
Travel to Factor e Farm.
Thur Jun 20, 2013
Received Lisa's excellent notes on blog post and returned my notes.
Worked with Jean-Baptiste and received new graphics, specific to Hydraulics 101 Jean-Baptiste Vervaeck
Researched new Android phone to setup Dozuki app for documentation. Purchased LG Optimus but need to confer with Tim Asp on setup of app.
Prepped for long trip.
Wed Jun 19, 2013
Several lengthy discussions with Joe Justice regarding OSE-Wikispeed collaboration. Wikispeed Negotiations
Moved down the line with remote graphics collaborator, Jean-Baptiste Vervaeck from Santiago, Chile. We're working through Hydraulics 101 to develop an efficient system to present whiteboard lectures from Marcin and others. Samples of his work on Jean-Baptiste Vervaeck
Wrote first draft of Video Collaboration recruitment blog post. Working with Lisa to revise.
Tues Jun 18, 2013
Prepped and tested video production package for travel. Sony Z1U camera, Sachler tripod, 2 Sony wireless microphones and one shotgun mic.
Roughed together weekly video log. Need to discuss with team.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTNni9q3SS0&feature=youtu.be
Mon Jun 17, 2013
Completed editing of AUDIO of Hydraulics 101 video. Was able to trim it down and adjust a few things. Runs about 30 minutes. -- Visuals and Popcorn need to be added.
Enlisted the help of new Graphics remote collaborator Jean-Baptiste Vervaeck in Santiago, Chile to work on "whiteboard" visuals for the presentation
Wrote a draft of the Blog Post for video collaboration and sent it to Elizabeth for assistance and editing. Hopefully latakoo will be setup today and we can blast out the post.
Continued to send messages to Joe Justice but no response yet.
Need to compile info from Katie etc. to work on weekly update post format.
Fri Jun 14, 2013
Sent long email to Joe Justice detailing our goals for the car build and asked specific questions regarding business arrangement. Awaiting response.
Let Latakoo know we're on board. They are very happy. Will talk more early next week to discuss launch plan.
Began Dozuki tutorials. Researched Android phones for Dozuki app.
Added Hydraulics Popcorn to video list... will create tutorial. Need video from today.
Thu Jun 13, 2013
Long meeting with Tim Asp and Eric Doster. Reviewed plans for building Guides as well as possibly using Dozuki as organizational tool for Wiki
- Dozuki platform - deliverable - Show us a sample of starting to build 50 machines - as
- Samsung Galaxy S3 is out there already
- Wikispeed - Buy some consulting time at $187.5
Request:
- Give us all water jet cut files. Estimated time?
- Gives us a BOM. Estimated time?
- Give us a written procedure. Estimated time?
Wed Jun 12, 2013
1. Secure TIG welder friend of Wayne. - Alerted Wayne that the engine will arrive soon. Discussed the plan for aluminum frame. He will continue looking for a TIG welder but his neighbor is too old to help. - discussed with Marcin the idea of welding at the farm and Wayne assembling. More design and coordination necessary here.
2. Get someone to design the new power cube - build upon Tom's Power Cube.
3. Build a Power Cube to fit the Wikispeed desing. Jordan is working on Modular Car Wheel Unit. From Joe - collate the DXFs and get Joe's approval. Between the SGT01 page and Dropbox - come up with shopping list. Ask Joe - are FastAce Coilover Struts the right thing for us? - Sent message to Joe but no response yet. He may still be traveling back from Winnipeg. Seems our first focus with Joe would be the chassis... and then determine the interface with our new front end/steering/suspension plan...will they work together?
4. Found VW expert Danny Brown in Kansas City. Nice guy. Seems to be a good source for what we need and interested in what we're doing. We need: 1. Steering wheel. 2. Let's get brakes. 3. Let's get wheels and wheel brake pads. Goal: 1. Secure steering column, rack, wheels for front. Design rear wheels. --- He recommended a 1971-1974 VW front end... simple system very similar to the Dune Buggy designs. He located one for us this afternoon. All the parts, including axle...which we don't need... runs about $1000... but he'll have more info tomorrow after he reviews the Wiki info. -- He loved the look of the tractor etc. on our website.
http://dannybrownsauto.com/ (816) 333-1187
Vic's Dune Buggies - (816) 650-3535 - initial lead in KC appears to be out of business.
Spoke with Latakoo - long talk about our needs. They have restructured a plan for us. Need to discuss offline.
Worked on plan with Audrey for DPV video. A very good idea she suggested.
Still experimenting with Smartsheet.
Tues Jun 11, 2013
Spoke with Wayne and alerted him about the new 660 PowerCube with the VW engine. He's going to check out TIG welders, and his neighbor is a VW "nut" so he's going to gauge his interest in helping (he know welding too, but Wayne's not sure about TIG). Neighbor is retired. Also - In my mind, this type of vehicle would be a great OSE Car... although probably wouldn't need all the "off-road" capability... but the basic idea is cool. [1]. there definitely is a whole world of these "Side by Side" vehicles. [2]
Mon Jun 10, 2013
Talk to Joe to get any CAM files and fabrication procedures.
Reviewed MANY Open Source project management software packages, like Open Project and ProjectLibre, as well as several commercial products like Microsoft Office...nothing seemed quite right. Started testing in more detail with Smartsheet. Went to share it with Marcin and discovered he once had a trial with it too. Seems like it could be very useful... depending on pricing etc. -- but it feels like a valuable initial use for it (or another spreadsheet) could be to use the spreadsheet as a clear "table of contents" for what is on the Wiki...with links. -- Seems like it can do a lot for us and be very user friendly and very clear, once I learn it. Let's discuss asap.
Would be nice to have a visual interface like Dashboard, but may not be necessary if we all understand a standardized database tool.
Communicated with Winnespeed event and they are videotaping and shooting stills. Requested a copy of the tape.
Made proposal to Latakoo. No response yet.
Sat Jun 8, 2013
Rapid Prototyping Crash Training + GrabCAD Script
Fri Jun 7, 2013
Completed Prezi.
Response from Joe Justice and website of "Winnispeed" event looks interesting. https://blogs.rrc.ca/bit/event-registration/
Costs - not cheap.... But could also be a big jumpstart for car.
Spoke with Wayne Tollefson about the car and he certainly thinks he can do what's needed. He also suggested using a Kawasaki motorcycle engine with a side shaft... (816) 248-9485
Spoke with Ian about his build and the VW engine and it looks like they're going with the Kubota engine so their VW is available. (they're not doing the chain drive.)
Got the contact for the Pasadena kids and a bit of an update on the farm and tractor ... not so good on either front... farm was forced out of town and tractor is not working... I'll get more info.
Tezozomoc - South Central Farmers - 818.527.6384 Ian Midgley: Hayden Betts - 626.310.5042
Thu Jun 6, 2013
Requesting Video Production Team spreadsheet - see Marcin_Log#Wed_Jun_5.2C_2013.
Requested transcription function from Latakoo. Excellent machine transcription of OSE Philosophy video. Initial rate plan too high.
More work on Prezi with Emily. Edited several new videos. Met with Marcin in Santa Monica to review Prezi.
Tue June 4, 2013
All day on Glimpses presentation. Videos and Prezi
Began talks with Latakoo to confirm arrangement.
Mon June 3, 2013
Worked with Emily on Prezi for Glimpses. Video for presentation edited into Prezi format.
Happened upon article on Factory Five kit cars... interesting to see their designs. See "development archive at bottom of this page: https://www.factoryfive.com/galleries/project-818/
Planning and Review:
Week went well - Many tests with Latakoo. All went well. Worked towards completing an agreement with Wikispeed for car project. Completed Popcorn Log video...good potential for other uses. Worked on videos for Glimpses speech.
This week must confirm Wikispeed. Confirm Latakoo. Complete Glimpses. Arrange travel for Farm trip. Get blog post and collaboration into full swing.
Sat June 1, 2013
Good talk with Joe Justice about 660 Car. Working with Marcin on collaboration agreement. Wikispeed Negotiations
Researched water jet cutter facilities in KC for making Wikispeed parts. Metro Industries looks good. http://www.metrogasket.com/custom-fabrication/waterjet-cutting.htm
Reviewed plan with Matt Maier and learned about his experiences. Identified areas of challenge.
Excellent test of Latakoo smartphone app. Shot video, uploaded immediately to Latakoo, shared it, then downloaded immediately as AVID format video. Reached out to Latakoo to discuss arrangement for moving forward.