Em4, fieldwork in Detroit, tornadoes.

Jun 8, 2008

I’m worn and stressed out, but managed to take a whole day off yesterday. Not so lucky today. It’s horribly hot in Carbondale, and the entire Midwest seems to be getting hit by tornadoes, including the Chicago burbs just today. Jesse and I narrowly missed...

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The Em4 in Winona, Minnesota.

Jun 5, 2008

I’m posting from a hotel in Janesville, WI. In the last two days Jesse and I’ve driven about 850 miles and successfully installed our first Emriver Em4 in the Science Learning Center, a stunning new building at Winona State University. This project had to...

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Leaving the nest.

Jun 1, 2008

On Friday, Jesse reminded me of George C. Scott in Patton. Barking orders to me and a helper from TREA, he managed to get four Emriver models and our first Em4 ready for delivery to Minnesota. I tried not to get in his way. Especially when he rolled three 250 pound...

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More Em4.

May 30, 2008

We did our first full flow testing of the Em4 today. No problems. Though this is the first assembly of this model, we’ve tested and built prototypes of most of its systems, and spent many hours refining them during video shoots, so I wasn’t surprised it...

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We add more Em4 parts. It works.

May 29, 2008

We introduced the Em4’s box to most of its parts today. Here’s a nice photo of the EDU, an acrylic energy dissipater we finished today. The Em4 is a mechanical beauty, wonderful to see in the flesh (aluminum, mostly) after after many months of design work....

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