Burning Man grant for Carbon Garden

February 22nd, 2009

Happy news! We received a grant from Burning Man this
year for Carbon Garden. The project is to build a garden of flowers
made out of carbon fiber (the same stuff as the stealth bomber,
Boeing’s most advanced airplane wings, and possibly your bicycle fork
if you’re extra cool).
Illlustration of a carbon fiber flower
Each flower will have a small flame that can change its size up to 30
times per second from a candle size to about 3 feet. Flowers react to
people around them with ultrasonic range finders, and “talk” to each
other in a language of fire.

Here’s the full project description
http://labs.false-profit.com/blog/carbon-garden

brett

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