Saturday, March 30, 2013

Cutting some width

The Burning Man DMV only allows vehicles less than 12 feet wide on the city streets. A 20 foot wide vehicle would have to stay on the Playa. Since we want to go everywhere we've been working on ways for the wings to fold up. Here's one idea.

3d Views







A few screen grabs from the Sketch up model. The saucer is now 20 feet in diameter instead of 14.

Real world model

A meat world model. Closing in on the final design.
The idea for this mutant vehicle is to put lights in the air and on the move. Here's how the lights will (hopefully) work.