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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.06,0:00:03.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is an open hardware project.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:03.12,0:00:06.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it’s an open hardware project with no electronics to speak of.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:06.67,0:00:15.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are a few electronics. Let me give you the electronics.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:15.53,0:00:19.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, I wanna point this out, it's the direction open hardware is going.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.97,0:00:21.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You wanna take one of those and pass them on?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.89,0:00:23.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These is some lights.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.08,0:00:26.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don’t think we need that light. It's probably okay without it.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.38,0:00:28.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[audience: alright for the video]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.02,0:00:28.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ok, cool.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.84,0:00:34.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These things here are hexayurts, and these ones are Burning Man.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.05,0:00:37.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you can see, they are just, they are little houses, right.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.41,0:00:40.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They are, sort of, housing-pod-things.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.91,0:00:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they’re incredibly easy to make.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.00,0:00:48.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We'll just, right, take a look at them.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:48.51,0:00:51.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to suggest that this is an example
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.97,0:00:54.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of open hardware taking a different direction.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.80,0:00:57.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this is the direction I think open hardware is going,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.63,0:00:59.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that it’s becoming more and more like software,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.86,0:01:03.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where you just casually hack together physical artifacts.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:03.78,0:01:06.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And my speciality happens to be housing and infrastructure
Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.32,0:01:08.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and sustainable developement,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.01,0:01:10.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but you can do anything this way.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.10,0:01:12.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, let’s think about this,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.67,0:01:15.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if we take laziness and impatience and hubris,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.51,0:01:17.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,instead of being for software,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.88,0:01:20.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as a way of thinking about hardware. Right?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.60,0:01:23.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What’s the lazy, impatient, you know, ambitious way
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.73,0:01:26.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of doing hardware systems. Right?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.52,0:01:29.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, these lights that I’m passing around,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.12,0:01:32.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have not been formally announced as open hardware yet,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.09,0:01:34.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but they are 7 dollars, right?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.04,0:01:35.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look at that thing. 7 dollars!
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.76,0:01:38.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Audience: 7 dollars!] 7 dollars!
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.24,0:01:39.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, the difference that that makes,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.56,0:01:40.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as an open hardware project,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.86,0:01:43.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you can sell these as open hardware
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.47,0:01:47.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,incredibly cheaply in the developing world, right?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.48,0:01:50.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And, you know, that's not the direction we typically think of open hardware.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.16,0:01:53.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Open hardware typically is microprocessors and all the rest of that stuff.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.11,0:01:54.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No, there’s a different direction here.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.94,0:01:59.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, laziness, hubris and impatience, right?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.44,0:02:07.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,150 square-meters of buildings built by 6 guys in 2 days.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.66,0:02:10.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Does that sound useful for CCC, maybe?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.91,0:02:12.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Audience: How many?]
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.70,0:02:24.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,7 buildings: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 buildings.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.59,0:02:29.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Large, 150 square-meters between them, 6 guys in 2 days.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.08,0:02:32.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it wasn't really very hard work. Right?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.51,0:02:36.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a radical breakthrough building technology. You know.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:36.65,0:02:39.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This place is Maslowtopia,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.22,0:02:40.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you can see in the bottom corner,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:40.70,0:02:42.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you've got the google street view,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:42.42,0:02:46.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know, the map, they do a high-res picture of Burning Man every year.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:46.12,0:02:48.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This was a huge camp with these units.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.28,0:02:50.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I didn't even know these guys were building this thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:50.56,0:02:52.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I just, after the event, I saw some pictures of this.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:52.29,0:02:55.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They didn't ask me how to do anything.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:55.94,0:02:57.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Audience: They didn't ask your permission?]
Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.41,0:02:58.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No, they didn't ask me how to do anything:
Dialogue: 0,0:02:58.52,0:03:02.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they just downloaded the plans and built the damn things. Right?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:02.44,0:03:04.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it's an open hardware project
Dialogue: 0,0:03:04.34,0:03:06.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in massive full-scale replication
Dialogue: 0,0:03:06.96,0:03:07.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because it's really, really simple.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:07.95,0:03:13.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the simplicity, right - lazy, impatient, hubristic - right,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:13.86,0:03:16.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the simplicity is what allows the idea spread.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:16.41,0:03:19.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So how do you make a hexayurt?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.01,0:03:20.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You need this very broad tape.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:20.69,0:03:23.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You need to know how to make this thing called the tape anchor,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:23.85,0:03:25.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is like a, you know, like a knob,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:25.48,0:03:27.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where you've got a special way of using rope to make a fastener.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.42,0:03:30.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the tape anchor is a special way of using tape to make a fastener.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:30.80,0:03:34.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then you need these polyiso panel material
Dialogue: 0,0:03:34.66,0:03:35.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that they sell at any babas [?],
Dialogue: 0,0:03:35.40,0:03:37.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that's all there is to it.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:37.77,0:03:38.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a really really simple system.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:38.84,0:03:41.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And all of this stuff you would look on the internet,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:41.86,0:03:45.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you can find the references for how to do these things.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:45.28,0:03:46.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hexayurt in wood.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:46.22,0:03:50.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, this really shows like how the thing is put together.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:50.90,0:03:55.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The wall is just a whole 1.2 x 2.4 panel.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:55.47,0:03:59.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this is the standard size for all industrial sheet materials:
Dialogue: 0,0:03:59.16,0:04:05.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,cardboard, plastic, wood, metal, sandwich panels,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:05.76,0:04:06.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can you think of anything else?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:06.80,0:04:09.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's just the standard industrial size for materials.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:09.62,0:04:12.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The roof pieces are half of that size.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:12.03,0:04:15.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So you take a piece, you cut in half. Right?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:15.37,0:04:18.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you happen to be making it in plywood,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:18.02,0:04:22.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you can take, you see these wooden blocks, light coloured sections?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:22.97,0:04:24.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So that's just a piece of 2-by-4 [wood]
Dialogue: 0,0:04:24.56,0:04:25.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's been cut with a 30 degree angle on it,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:25.90,0:04:30.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you screw the building together with those.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:30.30,0:04:33.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you're done!
Dialogue: 0,0:04:33.79,0:04:37.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, I mean, that's, thank you very much, that's the talk!
Dialogue: 0,0:04:37.55,0:04:40.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[audience laughs]
Dialogue: 0,0:04:40.59,0:04:43.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, ok, there's a little more to it, right?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:43.89,0:04:48.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, you know, I want to make the point that, actually, you know,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:48.04,0:04:52.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that picture is pretty much all there is to know about the basic hexayurt.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:52.78,0:04:54.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's that simple.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:54.27,0:04:58.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you happen to be making it using, you know, this kind of material,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:58.10,0:05:01.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you need to get tape and you need to know how to make a tape anchor.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:01.51,0:05:03.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you're making it out of this kind of material,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:03.51,0:05:05.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you need to know how to make these little wooden blocks,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:05.39,0:05:07.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you need to know how to cut that much plywood and screw it.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:07.92,0:05:10.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But really this is all there is.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:10.75,0:05:13.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then there's all the stuff [$$5:14$$ you worried] on top of it.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:13.38,0:05:16.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the basics are so incredibly simple, that right now, in 5 minutes,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:16.50,0:05:19.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you've all aquired the basic knowledge of how to make hexayurts.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:19.62,0:05:21.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if you had to figure out the actual details
Dialogue: 0,0:05:21.32,0:05:24.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to make them out of any given material,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:24.57,0:05:27.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know, you're smart people, it's not going to take you very long.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:27.68,0:05:29.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's an idea that spreads incredibly quickly.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:29.82,0:05:33.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, this is the first hexayurt that was ever built.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:33.04,0:05:35.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can see the solar panel that drives the cooling system.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:35.78,0:05:37.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The swamp cooler.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:37.78,0:05:42.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's 1.2 meter squares that is made of, Burning Man 2003.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:42.49,0:05:45.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God that's a great party!
Dialogue: 0,0:05:45.54,0:05:49.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, this is the configuration space of hexayurts, right?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:49.32,0:05:51.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You’ve seen the basic ones in two materials.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:51.88,0:05:55.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Geometry, the material choice and the construction technologies
Dialogue: 0,0:05:55.24,0:05:57.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are the 3 big variables.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:57.73,0:06:02.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, this is the different kinds of hexayurts that exist:
Dialogue: 0,0:06:02.74,0:06:03.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's a six-foot hexayurt
Dialogue: 0,0:06:03.56,0:06:06.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,stretch hexayurt
Dialogue: 0,0:06:06.62,0:06:10.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pentayurt, which has a nice steep angle on the side [?] for dealing with snow
Dialogue: 0,0:06:10.57,0:06:11.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,standard hexayurt
Dialogue: 0,0:06:11.70,0:06:13.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,stretch hexayurt
Dialogue: 0,0:06:13.35,0:06:15.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,double stretch
Dialogue: 0,0:06:15.35,0:06:18.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,double-height double-stretch, alright,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:18.72,0:06:20.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that's your configuration space.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:20.100,0:06:24.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Obviously you could connect the damn things together any way you like.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:24.50,0:06:27.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,$$6:26$$. Big hive [worm?] type things pretty easy to do.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:27.40,0:06:30.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Audience: make a giant "C" out of that]
Dialogue: 0,0:06:30.95,0:06:34.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yes, you could make a giant "C" out of that pretty easily.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:34.45,0:06:37.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You could make a bunch of small Cs. I mean ...
Dialogue: 0,0:06:37.38,0:06:40.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[audience: "Does anybody see where this is going?"]
Dialogue: 0,0:06:40.45,0:06:43.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(laughs)
Dialogue: 0,0:06:43.45,0:06:45.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you have enough hexayurts, you know,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:45.26,0:06:49.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you could make a big C in any font you liked.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:49.88,0:06:51.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Audience: Now, what do we need to represent this form
Dialogue: 0,0:06:51.71,0:06:53.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you see on the window behind you?]
Dialogue: 0,0:06:53.80,0:06:58.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One of those? I if you've got 4000 people coming, right?,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:58.56,0:07:02.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at 5 people per hexayurt gives you enough hexayurts
Dialogue: 0,0:07:02.72,0:07:04.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to do realize quite a high-res version.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:04.95,0:07:06.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Audience: do you know that the original size of c-base
Dialogue: 0,0:07:06.81,0:07:08.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has a diameter of a mile?]
Dialogue: 0,0:07:08.55,0:07:14.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's about the size of Burning Man. Entirely reasonable.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:14.35,0:07:17.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[332 people]
Dialogue: 0,0:07:17.87,0:07:20.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's fine. You wind up with 400 hexayurts,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:20.90,0:07:25.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's a 20x20 pixel array, you'll be fine!
Dialogue: 0,0:07:25.85,0:07:27.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, other ways of constructing these things, right?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:27.66,0:07:30.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a kind that you make instead of with panels, with tubes.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:30.21,0:07:33.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So you have a frame like this.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:33.37,0:07:37.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The advantage this has over the standard geodesic dome
Dialogue: 0,0:07:37.45,0:07:40.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is there are only 2 connectors,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:40.40,0:07:43.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there are only two section pieces,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:43.12,0:07:45.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so the triangles are full length,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:45.51,0:07:50.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the hexagon around the top are missing a few inches per piece,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:50.74,0:07:52.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a few centimeters per piece.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:52.18,0:07:54.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it's only two components.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:54.15,0:07:56.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the walls are vertical,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:56.61,0:07:59.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so you could take two of these units and connect them directly together
Dialogue: 0,0:07:59.09,0:08:02.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with no connection problem.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:02.21,0:08:04.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,$$8:02$$ So you can actually have very modular pieces,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:04.21,0:08:05.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the materials are sized in such a way
Dialogue: 0,0:08:05.73,0:08:08.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you can make the fabric cover really easily.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:08.43,0:08:10.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the fabric cover instructions.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:10.22,0:08:12.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you could make zero waste cover,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:12.38,0:08:15.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you want to go down the route of having frame.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:15.24,0:08:18.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're also at the point, cos the project started by 2003,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:18.53,0:08:22.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and by 2011 we've also got new designs that came from other people.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:22.39,0:08:24.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a thing called the h13
Dialogue: 0,0:08:24.90,0:08:28.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you can see it's still using full sheets and half sheets.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:28.10,0:08:30.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And there's this corner thing you do at the front
Dialogue: 0,0:08:30.70,0:08:33.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that gives you a full 2.4 meter entryway.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:33.72,0:08:36.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Cos the conventional hexayurt has a low entry way,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:36.44,0:08:37.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is a pain in the arse.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:37.50,0:08:39.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This one has a high entry way so it's easy to walk in and out
Dialogue: 0,0:08:39.82,0:08:42.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's only one more panel.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:42.38,0:08:47.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is one that was made for a party for Canada in the middle of winter.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:47.02,0:08:49.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's actually quite a clever piece of engineering.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:49.67,0:08:54.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's 2 sheets of thin plywood sandwiched around some insulation foam
Dialogue: 0,0:08:54.52,0:08:57.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you see the yellow band around the side?
Dialogue: 0,0:08:57.64,0:09:00.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's the webbing strap that you use in a truck to hold the load on it.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:00.96,0:09:02.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's being used as a tension rim
Dialogue: 0,0:09:02.23,0:09:04.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to stop the building fall into pieces.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:04.04,0:09:06.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So probably you'd open that strap
Dialogue: 0,0:09:06.51,0:09:07.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you take the building down again.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:07.22,0:09:10.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Audience: Pure genius!]
Dialogue: 0,0:09:10.62,0:09:13.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Right? But, you know, that stuff is like 20 dollars a strap
Dialogue: 0,0:09:13.54,0:09:18.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's a breaking strain of 8 tons, so why not use it for construction?
Dialogue: 0,0:09:18.14,0:09:22.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Laziness, hubris and impatience!
Dialogue: 0,0:09:22.83,0:09:25.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Can you imagine a lazier building for the middle of Canada?
Dialogue: 0,0:09:25.50,0:09:28.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Could it possibly have more impatience?
Dialogue: 0,0:09:28.01,0:09:33.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,$$9:30$$... building materials … strap off a truck, dude!
Dialogue: 0,0:09:33.56,0:09:35.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then, take a look at this structure.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:35.18,0:09:37.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is longer on the hubris side.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:37.09,0:09:38.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So there's your standard hexayurt in the middle,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:38.97,0:09:42.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then there's these two dirty grey big domes.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:42.84,0:09:47.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look at the size of these things. 45 square meters for 30 sheets worth of material
Dialogue: 0,0:09:47.69,0:09:53.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so the ratio of material to surface area:
Dialogue: 0,0:09:53.27,0:09:55.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Each board is 3 meters,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:55.36,0:10:01.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it needs 30 boards so you get 90 meters worth of materials for 45 meters of space
Dialogue: 0,0:10:01.56,0:10:03.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{10:00} The thing is basically a perfect hemisphere.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:03.79,0:10:07.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it only uses whole boards and half boards.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:07.92,0:10:11.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So all those shapes are 1.2 x 2.4 meter boards
Dialogue: 0,0:10:11.13,0:10:14.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,either cut in half or used full. Right?
Dialogue: 0,0:10:14.61,0:10:20.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Woo! Suddenly you're beginning to talk about really big construction
Dialogue: 0,0:10:20.90,0:10:23.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with zero waste and no screwing around.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:23.43,0:10:27.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And because all of these hexayurts are using the same components,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:27.15,0:10:28.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,imagine you've got a standard kit of parts,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:28.68,0:10:31.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you rearrange the buildings you need for a given event,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:31.62,0:10:34.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,now we need lots of small ones, now we need some big domes.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:34.50,0:10:37.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's all the same connectors, it's all the same panel sizes.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:37.72,0:10:42.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a flexible architecture. Interesting things happen.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:42.48,0:10:42.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I want to make a point:
Dialogue: 0,0:10:42.98,0:10:46.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The reason that Buckminster Fuller didn't get to this stuff is that
Dialogue: 0,0:10:46.79,0:10:49.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Buckminster Fuller was optimising for the wrong thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:49.37,0:10:52.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was optimising for minimum mass
Dialogue: 0,0:10:52.41,0:10:54.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is of course what you want in a space station.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:54.85,0:10:59.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you've got a mass-dependent drive technology in zero-g,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:59.45,0:11:01.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,mass is your critical factor.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:01.44,0:11:05.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, if you're operating on the ground in the gravity well $$11:04$$
Dialogue: 0,0:11:05.60,0:11:08.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with standard materials from an industrial supply chain,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:08.22,0:11:09.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you’re looking for a different optimisation.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:09.87,0:11:12.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You don't want minimal mass, you want minimal waste.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:12.16,0:11:14.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that means using a different branch of maths,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:14.28,0:11:16.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in this case it's concave tiling.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:16.42,0:11:19.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it's the same mathematics as for things like Penrose tiles
Dialogue: 0,0:11:19.37,0:11:22.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to figure out wether you can get it tight.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:22.34,0:11:25.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We get back to the hubris part:
Dialogue: 0,0:11:25.25,0:11:27.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think if we'd had this technology in the 1960's,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:27.14,0:11:29.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the hippies would have won.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:29.20,0:11:33.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because the problem with geodesic domes was that
Dialogue: 0,0:11:33.65,0:11:36.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the damn thing's really hard to build and would always leaked!
Dialogue: 0,0:11:36.78,0:11:41.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So all the communes failed because they couldn't afford to build houses! Right?
Dialogue: 0,0:11:41.59,0:11:43.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Audience: (laughs) Interesting theory!]
Dialogue: 0,0:11:43.56,0:11:45.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Places like Drop City, all of the houses leaked,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:45.86,0:11:47.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,everybody was unhappy,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:47.65,0:11:49.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people just decided to go back to the suburbs
Dialogue: 0,0:11:49.90,0:11:51.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because they wanted a house that didn't leak.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:51.37,0:11:53.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm telling you: this is the technology of victory.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:53.18,0:11:55.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is how the freaks take over the Earth.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:55.80,0:11:59.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, look at the size of that dome, right?
Dialogue: 0,0:11:59.68,0:12:01.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are plans on thingiverse
Dialogue: 0,0:12:01.79,0:12:04.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to download laser-cut plans to make these domes,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:04.30,0:12:07.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you just look for "nearodesic" or "hexayurt".
Dialogue: 0,0:12:07.95,0:12:10.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look at how big [compared to] the standard hexayurt.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:10.41,0:12:13.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's huge. You should $$12:11$$ build four of them [?]
Dialogue: 0,0:12:13.70,0:12:18.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, this notion of having a single panel repository,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:18.03,0:12:19.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where you can reconfigure the buildings if you want,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:19.09,0:12:20.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,using the same basic components,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:20.22,0:12:24.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think that is the way that this stuff is gonna go.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:24.18,0:12:26.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't know how to make the panel connectors yet, to make it possible,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:26.97,0:12:29.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but when we figure out how to do that,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:29.11,0:12:33.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then imagine just being able to rent from some central service
Dialogue: 0,0:12:33.19,0:12:36.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know, 27 panels, for 4 domes you're going to use for the weekend
Dialogue: 0,0:12:36.88,0:12:38.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then give them back on monday morning.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:38.69,0:12:39.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Configurable building.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:39.78,0:12:42.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we've covered the geometry.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:42.89,0:12:45.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everybody agrees pretty large configurations based on geometry?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:45.84,0:12:47.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Wait till we get to the materials.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:47.05,0:12:51.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[sound-engineer: Please, get closer to the microphone. Thank you.]
Dialogue: 0,0:12:51.34,0:12:54.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So these are the materials we've done already.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:54.11,0:12:56.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's basically anything we could get our hands on,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:56.45,0:13:01.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you take a look at it, "Yeah, I could make a hexayurt out of that".
Dialogue: 0,0:13:01.86,0:13:05.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the connection technology changes a little depending on your material.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:05.42,0:13:07.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ok, you know, this one is heavy, we're gonna use bolts.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:07.83,0:13:08.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That one is light, we're gonna use tape.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:08.98,0:13:12.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe we could make some more metal connectors.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:12.13,0:13:14.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You just sort of look at your material, you figure out your connector,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:14.63,0:13:18.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you apply the connector to the material, and there's your hexayurt.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:18.12,0:13:20.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We haven't done very much with metal,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:20.18,0:13:22.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because it's expensive and it's a pain in the arse.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:22.55,0:13:25.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We haven't done very much with structured insulating panels,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:25.52,0:13:28.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because they are expensive and it's a pain in the arse.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:28.43,0:13:31.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The really hot thing we haven't done yet,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:31.17,0:13:34.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I'm really eager to do, is ferrocement or spray concrete.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:34.51,0:13:36.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know concrete sprays?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:36.09,0:13:37.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Audience Yeah]
Dialogue: 0,0:13:37.48,0:13:38.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ok, so, imagine you -
Dialogue: 0,0:13:38.48,0:13:39.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Audience: No, I don't know]
Dialogue: 0,0:13:39.14,0:13:42.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ok, so you put concrete in a big sprayer and you spray it.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:42.39,0:13:43.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[audience laughs]
Dialogue: 0,0:13:43.01,0:13:46.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It turns out to be a lot harder than that in practice.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:46.68,0:13:48.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In fact there are companies that come and
Dialogue: 0,0:13:48.37,0:13:50.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,spray your things with concrete for you, right?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:50.42,0:13:51.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Your neighbour has a car that's really annoying you,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:51.62,0:13:54.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you come, you tell 'em which car and you have it sprayed.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:54.41,0:13:55.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[audience laughs]
Dialogue: 0,0:13:55.07,0:14:00.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So you build one of these hexayurts out of this light-weight foam material.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:00.59,0:14:02.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You spray with concrete on the outside,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:02.72,0:14:04.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you spray with concrete on the inside,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:04.74,0:14:08.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,now you have a highly insulated concrete permanent building.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:08.20,0:14:11.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's only 1 cm of concrete inside and out,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:11.24,0:14:13.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so the building is still relatively light,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:13.06,0:14:16.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so you can do things like put hexayurts on top of existing buildings. Right?
Dialogue: 0,0:14:16.54,0:14:19.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, you know, this has potential, nobody's done it yet.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:19.98,0:14:26.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Actually, so, there's something about printing designs on corrugated plastic.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:26.59,0:14:27.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Highly printable materials have [?] corrugated plastics.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:27.89,0:14:30.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can print anything you want outside the hexayurt.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:30.97,0:14:34.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So imagine taking a picture of the place,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:34.93,0:14:37.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,doing the 3D projection to know exactly
Dialogue: 0,0:14:37.13,0:14:39.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what you've got to put on each side of the hexayurt,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:39.11,0:14:41.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then printing a camouflaged hexayurt
Dialogue: 0,0:14:41.06,0:14:41.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is completely invisible
Dialogue: 0,0:14:41.90,0:14:43.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because it looks like you are looking straight through it.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:43.15,0:14:46.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All of this is possible.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:46.86,0:14:48.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ok, construction techniques.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:48.100,0:14:52.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[audience: That only works from a single point of view.]
Dialogue: 0,0:14:52.13,0:14:54.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, maybe, the eye is very lazy,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:54.59,0:14:57.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so it's posible that we'd get something that works from multiple points of view
Dialogue: 0,0:14:57.13,0:15:00.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it looked a little bit wrong as you walk along one side
Dialogue: 0,0:15:00.77,0:15:02.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you wouldn't really notice.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:02.72,0:15:05.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{15:00} But I don't know: nobody's tried it so we've got to do some experiments, right?
Dialogue: 0,0:15:05.52,0:15:09.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, there are lots of different ways of doing this stuff
Dialogue: 0,0:15:09.57,0:15:11.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,depending on whether you want to be just a one-off unit,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:11.71,0:15:13.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whether if you want it to be folding,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:13.68,0:15:15.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whether you want it to be folding as a single component,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:15.36,0:15:19.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,again it's a big configuration space.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:19.60,0:15:22.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a completely folding hexayurt unit
Dialogue: 0,0:15:22.46,0:15:26.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that was built by some German army dudes in Stuttgart for an exercise.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:26.31,0:15:28.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Audience laughs]
Dialogue: 0,0:15:28.64,0:15:30.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh, yeah, the military love this hexayurt.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:30.77,0:15:33.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They are super into them.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:33.42,0:15:36.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Which is a long story.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:36.20,0:15:40.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, you know, that building thing is a single module
Dialogue: 0,0:15:40.15,0:15:44.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I've got some video in here I can show you the video in a second.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:44.56,0:15:49.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or if you just go to http://hexayurt.com/fold there's all the folding hexayurts there.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:49.44,0:15:51.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This a different kind of folding hexayurt
Dialogue: 0,0:15:51.53,0:15:54.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so this one is much bigger and it's two components:
Dialogue: 0,0:15:54.55,0:15:57.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The triangles are the roof and the walls are the walls -
Dialogue: 0,0:15:57.61,0:16:00.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,rectangles are the walls.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:00.77,0:16:03.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the whole roof is this single star thing
Dialogue: 0,0:16:03.36,0:16:07.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then you pull this star-thing open and there is your roof.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:07.72,0:16:11.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this happens to be built inside a gigantic geodesic dome in Eindhoven.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:11.45,0:16:16.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,$$16:11$$ Which is built ... might remember ... Red Cross ...
Dialogue: 0,0:16:16.07,0:16:20.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, this is kind of where I see the future of this whole project, right.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:20.11,0:16:23.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because it's open hardware it's beginning to be comercialized.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:23.20,0:16:24.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is a resale market in America for hexayurts.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:24.97,0:16:27.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So people build them for Burning Man and sell them afterwards
Dialogue: 0,0:16:27.96,0:16:32.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the market value seems to be 500$ a unit.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:32.96,0:16:36.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Getting to this point where you can spray the damn things and make them permanent,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:36.30,0:16:38.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's gonna be the way to do this.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:38.18,0:16:41.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That opens up a whole new set of terrain.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:41.38,0:16:44.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Also rural squatting, so you take a van,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:44.84,0:16:46.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you put 12 hexayurts in the back as a foldup
Dialogue: 0,0:16:46.81,0:16:47.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You drive out to an abandoned farm.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:47.40,0:16:50.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You live in them for 3 months.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:50.11,0:16:52.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Somebody comes and servest you a court order and says you must leave.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:52.44,0:16:55.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You put them back in the van, and you drive 30 miles down the road.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:55.64,0:16:59.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's all [?]
Dialogue: 0,0:16:59.91,0:17:01.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is also a really important detail:
Dialogue: 0,0:17:01.68,0:17:04.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ultraviolet light eats everything.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:04.88,0:17:08.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the big advantage of the hexayurt is that we use a foil surface.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:08.71,0:17:11.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know these foil surface panels.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:11.36,0:17:14.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That stuff will last a really long time in the outdoors.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:14.12,0:17:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the ability to have rigid buildings that last a long time
Dialogue: 0,0:17:17.00,0:17:19.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because they've got an appropriate UV protective surface
Dialogue: 0,0:17:19.49,0:17:21.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is really key to getting this stuff to work,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:21.51,0:17:23.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you want multi-year buildings.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:23.46,0:17:27.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because UV will ruin any kind of plastic eventually.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:27.82,0:17:30.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this thin shell concrete thing, you know, that's gonna come.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:30.96,0:17:32.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So that's the hexayurt part.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:32.56,0:17:35.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let me show you two other cool things.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:35.76,0:17:42.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Cheap ID is a barcode and crypto-based solution for managing digital identites.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:42.31,0:17:44.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You take a passport.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:44.26,0:17:47.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You generate some digital signature that you have seen the passport.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:47.33,0:17:48.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You put the digital signature on a piece of paper
Dialogue: 0,0:17:48.92,0:17:52.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,together with a jpeg of somebody's face
Dialogue: 0,0:17:52.14,0:17:54.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then you have an anonymous digital identity
Dialogue: 0,0:17:54.20,0:17:56.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's still $$17.57$$ [pa??] by nation-state credentials.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:56.61,0:17:57.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What you would do with that, I don't know.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:57.58,0:18:01.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you’re smart people you'll find a use.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:01.14,0:18:03.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Got be some use for it, right,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:03.44,0:18:06.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like ID-cards for things where you want people to get in
Dialogue: 0,0:18:06.69,0:18:08.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but you don't want necesarly to reveal anything
Dialogue: 0,0:18:08.38,0:18:10.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,other than the fact that somebody’s allowed there.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:10.79,0:18:17.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And there's this thing which is the dartboard of death.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:17.13,0:18:19.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,O{\i1}Death{\i0}.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:19.64,0:18:29.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[audience: Yeah I perfectly understood that part,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:29.63,0:18:32.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you can also call it the dartboard of {\i1}doom{\i0}]
Dialogue: 0,0:18:32.08,0:18:35.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dartboard of {\i1}doom{\i0}.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:35.37,0:18:38.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(voices acting like Lord vader)
Dialogue: 0,0:18:38.18,0:18:39.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let me explain this before we get silly.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:39.67,0:18:44.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's only six ways people die:
Dialogue: 0,0:18:44.78,0:18:47.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,too hot, too cold, hunger, thirst, illness, injury.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:47.79,0:18:51.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the services that protect you from dying of these things
Dialogue: 0,0:18:51.11,0:18:54.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are split through different levels of society.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:54.16,0:18:57.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Individual person, household, village,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:57.64,0:19:03.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,community or city, region, country and world, right.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:03.54,0:19:06.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So you have this notion of a stack of interlocking services
Dialogue: 0,0:19:06.69,0:19:08.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that provides the essential services.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:08.48,0:19:11.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a design tool that I've used when I was thinking about
Dialogue: 0,0:19:11.13,0:19:12.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,doing things for war refugees camps.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:12.89,0:19:14.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it's a way of figuring out that we have actually
Dialogue: 0,0:19:14.64,0:19:18.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,covered out all the essential needs within the concept of core technologies.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:18.47,0:19:22.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So this is sitting out there, again, this is under the creative commons license.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:22.37,0:19:25.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It models everything up to and including state failures.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:25.39,0:19:28.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is no software support for it yet, so we do it all with spreadsheets.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:28.40,0:19:31.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Spreadsheets suck.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:31.72,0:19:34.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So this is a really useful analysis tool,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:34.54,0:19:36.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and its the kind of thing that we are tryin to begin to think
Dialogue: 0,0:19:36.97,0:19:39.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to develop some kind of software to support.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:39.30,0:19:42.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If anyone’s interested in this stuff, give me a shout.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:42.43,0:19:46.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, that was it.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:46.70,0:19:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'll turn off recorders and I'll take questions?
Dialogue: 0,0:19:49.00,0:19:51.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[voice: Yes, sure]
Dialogue: 0,0:19:51.49,0:19:52.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You want to see the folding videos?
Dialogue: 0,0:19:52.98,0:20:00.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,OK, hang a second.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:00.05,0:20:04.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't think I have put this machine on the network.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:04.07,0:20:52.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(silence)
Dialogue: 0,0:20:52.38,0:21:04.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's the crap animation GIF
Dialogue: 0,0:21:04.10,0:21:06.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Have you seen this by the way?
Dialogue: 0,0:21:06.92,0:21:15.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a 15 euro USB chargeable, awful awful horrible quality loud-speaker.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:15.19,0:21:18.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But they are incredibly loud and they're dirt cheap.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:18.05,0:21:24.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now I can show you, let's see...
Dialogue: 0,0:21:24.97,0:21:28.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So this is the German army dudes video.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:28.08,0:21:40.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(silence)
Dialogue: 0,0:21:40.13,0:21:51.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{21:50 or so} What? No! Go away!
Dialogue: 0,0:21:51.87,0:21:55.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[video: Shall we try again (laughs).
Dialogue: 0,0:21:55.32,0:21:59.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One of these days, we'll get just the right angle
Dialogue: 0,0:21:59.87,0:22:01.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we’ll understand how to make it work,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:01.70,0:22:06.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and once we understand why, then it will be easy.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:06.21,0:22:11.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Understanding counts, understanding counts.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:11.30,0:22:28.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,open-close, one-two-three]
Dialogue: 0,0:22:28.54,0:22:33.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s called polyiso, polyiso.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:33.89,0:22:35.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[So, what makes it so hard?]
Dialogue: 0,0:22:35.04,0:22:35.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a cheap insulation board.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:35.82,0:22:41.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[I don't know either, that's why I'm asking you.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:41.73,0:22:52.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ok, so let’s give that a try.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:52.23,0:22:58.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yes, oo, ok, you got it.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:58.08,0:23:01.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, what did we do that made it easy that time?
Dialogue: 0,0:23:01.05,0:23:03.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[mumble] oposite ends [?]]
Dialogue: 0,0:23:03.47,0:23:06.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the red cross, one,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:06.42,0:23:09.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The prototype we did for the Red Cross.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:09.46,0:23:15.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sorry it's an animated GIF, there's video but it's really slow.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:15.26,0:23:22.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a smaller size that someone did at Burning Man.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:22.25,0:23:53.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(silence)
Dialogue: 0,0:23:53.37,0:24:09.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's -
Dialogue: 0,0:24:09.41,0:24:16.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{24:10} [Roof herd - retreat! Not through the puddle.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:16.58,0:24:17.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Your feet are gonna get wet.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:17.46,0:24:18.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Go around, go around!
Dialogue: 0,0:24:18.81,0:24:21.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh, what are we gonna do! Okey!]
Dialogue: 0,0:24:21.17,0:24:26.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So this one we had material that was 3 meters by 1.8 meters.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:26.20,0:24:30.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we modified the design slightly and wound up with this huge structure.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:30.40,0:24:32.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's like 24 or 30 square meters in size.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:32.94,0:24:34.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just enormous.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:34.49,0:24:45.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[wall ... 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ... that will be the problem ...]
Dialogue: 0,0:24:45.20,0:24:51.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's the sixth side! [wall ... Okey?]
Dialogue: 0,0:24:51.93,0:24:56.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Does that look about right? Looks about right to me.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:56.97,0:24:59.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ok, so, roof folks!
Dialogue: 0,0:24:59.43,0:25:00.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, here we're gonna have a bit of a problem
Dialogue: 0,0:25:00.84,0:25:04.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because we don’t want the bottom of the roof to get wet, do we?
Dialogue: 0,0:25:04.72,0:25:10.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we're gonna get everybody and we're gonna open the roof in mid-air. Ok?
Dialogue: 0,0:25:10.13,0:25:12.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Does that sound remotely possible?]
Dialogue: 0,0:25:12.35,0:25:13.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So this is another clever thing that we've learned.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:13.78,0:25:17.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Which is what I call "gang carry".
Dialogue: 0,0:25:17.12,0:25:19.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, if everybody involved in the lift is carrying
Dialogue: 0,0:25:19.21,0:25:22.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,less than about 10 kilos, maybe 15,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:22.56,0:25:25.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you get very very fine motor control of the lift,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:25.69,0:25:28.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,regardless of how heavy the object is.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:28.13,0:25:31.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So you can actually take a hexayurt that's made of plywood, right?
Dialogue: 0,0:25:31.29,0:25:34.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's 12 sheets of plywood, 3/4 of an inch thick,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:34.96,0:25:38.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you can lift it with 4 people or 3 people on each side,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:38.72,0:25:41.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so you got a gang of 18-25 people doing the lift,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:41.46,0:25:43.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you can just pick them up and walk with them
Dialogue: 0,0:25:43.59,0:25:44.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because it's got so many people lifting it
Dialogue: 0,0:25:44.78,0:25:47.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that each individual person is only taking a little weight.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:47.26,0:25:52.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that turns out to be a important technique light-weight construction.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:52.44,0:25:54.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's very hard to get people to do
Dialogue: 0,0:25:54.18,0:25:57.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because everybody expects lifting a heavy object to be hard work.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:57.22,0:26:01.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the idea of using so many people to lift it the heavy object becomes easy.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:01.89,0:26:11.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People can’t get their heads around until they've done it.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:11.55,0:26:13.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everybody's looking confused: "shouldn’t this be heavier?
Dialogue: 0,0:26:13.87,0:26:18.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What are we supposed to be doing here?"
Dialogue: 0,0:26:18.68,0:26:20.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I and then you start moving
Dialogue: 0,0:26:20.16,0:26:31.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and instinctively everybody tends to coordinate and it just sort of works.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:31.77,0:26:40.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(mumble) See, we‘re on ice here. It's quite -
Dialogue: 0,0:26:40.43,0:26:41.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Now comes the tricky part.]
Dialogue: 0,0:26:41.89,0:26:45.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So people have to feel off the front [?] run around,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:45.47,0:26:48.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,go inside, then take the [?] back again.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:48.63,0:26:51.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is very slow, very careful movement.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:51.37,0:26:52.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you can do it even in plywood,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:52.81,0:27:04.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even if the material is really heavy, it still works.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:04.29,0:27:08.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Audience: I see. No door?]
Dialogue: 0,0:27:08.42,0:27:14.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No, you don’t do windows and doors in hexayurts, so we say.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:14.68,0:27:17.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, it’s a kind of ritual,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:17.13,0:27:19.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,putting the roof on,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:19.64,0:27:20.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,taping the roof in place,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:20.60,0:27:22.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then cutting the door.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:22.29,0:27:25.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We kind of do if for fun, but it’s a really nice moment.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:25.64,0:27:27.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[audience: ???]
Dialogue: 0,0:27:27.59,0:27:37.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you've got a space station you can use transport ... fine.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:37.76,0:27:40.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[I have a question.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:40.93,0:27:49.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the geodesics stuff ... material]
Dialogue: 0,0:27:49.61,0:27:53.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I’ll tell you what:
Dialogue: 0,0:27:53.32,0:27:55.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when I turn off the cameras and recorders
Dialogue: 0,0:27:55.16,0:27:57.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you guys be comfortable and ask me questions,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:57.18,0:27:58.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then we’ll take questions.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:58.80,0:28:02.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, thank you!\N