Special tribute to blob town citizens

To my esteemed colleague, 

I would like to take this opportunity to reflect upon our successes, and look forward towards new goals. With these new goals we will be equipped to reach ever higher in the world of robotic arm design and success. together, with your support, I believe we can achieve our goal. In the short term we shall strive for accuracy, not only in the color of the blob’s skin, but in making sure that no blob gets only half of the cuts it deserves. every blob we cut today shall not be left on the floor by the bathroom to slowly descend into the slums of the blobtown and be a stain on blob society. Rather, every blob we pass through this shop shall have both of it’s sides cut, and all chances to sing in unison with the fellow members of the Blobwall Pavilion. The harmony of the blobwall will grow better with every well prepared blob it accumulates; and this c-lu is our goal for you and me today. 
In the larger picture, our goal is to run for mayor and vice mayor of blobtown, and pass laws allowing more 214s to immigrate to our town. We will also befriend and unite with neighboring blob walls of different color families. 

Best of luck in achieving these goals. 
Together we can make change.

 

This message was endorsed by michelle paul for mayor of blobtown.

- Wed, May 21, 2008

 

Assembly Day 5: Blob Day 40

Today was bit of a slower day for assembly team. Not enough people showed up, so a lot was focused on patching those gaps in between bricks.

Cutting team didn’t really have a smooth day at Machineous either since a lot of paths were messed up. BOO to some folks at Programming team, thus, Ben + ChiaHwa are still working at the computer lab right now, almost midnite on fri nite. Without these devoted people, blobtown won’t be happening for sure! 

Nick and Ben earlier the day went to pick up the last batch of bricks at C-PAK, so no more 90mile-each way trip to San Bernardino anymore. 

 

 

 

 

Photos: Jeongsun Oh

 

 

Assembly Day 4: Row 4 completed

Wall is getting taller and higher now. Jeff came in early in the morning to help the assembly team for some better guidance since a lot of them were a bit lost in the process. Solid system has been established among themselves so all of them have certain roles, i.e. holding the bricks around to fit them, welding some spots to secure, and later on patching those gaps in between bricks. Indeed it is not an easy task for sure, but it is coming together. They finished up to row 4 and row 5 bricks were delivered from Andreas’ shop at the end of the day. ONWARD!

 

 

 

 

Photos: Jeongsun Oh

Assembly Day 3: Robots are in the house!

Today’s big task was putting up all the robots that Mr. Lynn collects with the bubble shells. Assembly team was busy stacking up bricks upto Row #02. 

 

 

 Photos: Jeongsun Oh

In between assembly day2 and day 3…

Ben was on his way to return the uHaul truck… and of course the truck broke down in the middle of the street… :) 

 

 

Photo: Ben Buckalew

Assembly Day 2:

Ben and I picked up our third batch of bricks from C-Pak, so while we had the uHaul truck we moved all the cut bricks to sci-Arc. Gallery space is getting tight with more pink blobby bricks and the assembly team has more bricks now to work with.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photos: Jeongsun Oh

Assembly Day01:

Today started early at 9am with all the assembly team members, Andi from the office and Jeff from Machineous. First task for them was to mount all the mirror backs for the robot bubble cases up on the walls. Parts of first row were started getting built also and cut bricks that have been delivered were all organized and renamed.

Photos: Jeongsun Oh

UPdate on the robot:

Amazing Andreas fixed the robot! just needed some rest i guess… don’t we all. :) 

oh boy: Just happened…

So since we were a bit behind our cutting schedule, we didn’t let the robot to have any weekend: of course, mr. robot broke down when we need it the most… Hopefully, it’ll get fixed soon! 

 

 

No time for robot to rest!

Right now I’m sitting at Machineous watching ChiaHwa, Ben and Andreas running the robot cutting each brick. This is how the cutting process goes:

1. Programming team packages txt manuals for Andreas as a reference when he cuts.
2. Two people from cutting team, out of three people, gather all the packages and go to Machineous.
3. Load the programmed files into the robot machine
4. Put the brick on the jig.
5. Robot cuts each path that was programmed on each side of bricks.
6. IF all goes smoothly, repeat steps 3-5.

     

 

 

 

  

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photos: Jeongsun Oh