Thank you, Lucas! Love to see this stuff translated, it's such a nice video.
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 Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 6:13 PM, Lucas González <[email protected] > wrote: > 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. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hexayurt" group. 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