Hey, so, nice video. And it has quite good automatic subtitles, which could be improved.
If anyone wants to help, basically _for the fun of it_, please go to http://piratepad.net/velcrohexayurt and maybe use http://sourceforge.net/projects/google2srt/ to download the raw subtitles provided by google/youtube, then copypaste that to the 'pad, make it perfect, then i'd upload to amara.org, translate into spanish (my dark motivation, you guessed right), etc sounds like some work but bit by bit we can help document stuff for the next wave of yurters? whole methodology here https://edgeryders.eu/help-fellow-edgeryder/mission_case/one-glad-be-service (plus newer improvements done by the amara.org and etherpad.org folks of course! @lucasgonzalez (spain) 2014-07-30 15:05 GMT+01:00 Vinay Gupta (Hexayurt Shelter Project) < [email protected]>: > > Jeremy, thank you very much for making that video. It's absolutely > exemplary - something people can really learn from, and a nice exploration > of The State of the Art (you put it up *yourself* in that length of time... > I'm all ears!) > > Can I put it up on hexayurt.com? It's just a really beautiful example of > Community Documentation. > > V> > > -- > *Vinay Gupta * * [email protected] <[email protected]> * > *http://re.silience.com* <http://re.silience.com> > *Free Science and Engineering in the Global Public Interest* > UK Cell : +44 (0)7500 895568 Twitter/Skype/Gtalk: hexayurt > "In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was > in me an invincible summer" - Albert Camus > > > On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 4:26 AM, Jeremy Shaw <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Apparently today is 'someday'. I have uploaded a brief video I shot on >> the playa showing off my vinyl+velcro hexayurt. >> >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1MiKiIaf9Q >> >> Although not mentioned in the video, I completely forgot to attach the >> velcro on the roof peak. So the top of the roof isn't being held >> together by anything at all. But, despite that it was still very >> sturdy. I never felt like it was in any danger of going anywhere. I >> think that is because I beveled the edges and strapped it down tight >> with the racket straps. The straps+bevel cause the thing to stay up >> nicely via compression. I feel like there is no chance that the velcro >> would come undone by itself. It required significant force to undo it >> on purpose in the direction it is designed to come apart. All the >> tension put on it by the yurt is trying to pull it apart sideways, >> which is much harder. >> >> I used 6" wide strips of vinyl with copious amounts of contact cement. >> The cement did soften a bit. I'll bring barge glue this time in case I >> have to do any touchups. >> >> I have other videos of the construction process somewhere. Perhaps >> they will also appear on another someday. >> >> - jeremy >> >> On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 9:47 PM, Jeremy Shaw <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I built two 6' folding stretch hexayurts this year. One was a >> traditional >> > design with camp danger bifi hinges. The other used contact cement, >> vinyl, >> > and velcro. >> > >> > The contact cement+vinyl+velcro solution definitely required more work >> up >> > front. But the pay off on the playa was huge! It went up and down so >> much >> > faster. And, it is already ready to go back up again. There is no >> per-use >> > consumeables and nothing that has to be cleaned off before the next use. >> > >> > I have a bunch of video and other details on the build process that I >> hope >> > to upload 'some day' but the short version is, DO IT! >> > >> > - jeremy >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "hexayurt" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hexayurt. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "hexayurt" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hexayurt. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hexayurt" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hexayurt. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
