We’re fully underway with carbon fiber flower petal production.  In addition we’ll start bending and hammering steel stems in the forge pretty soon, and we’ve got decent mechanical designs for the interfaces to hold petals, leaves and stems together.  On the flame effect side, our Flame Elements now have built in ultrasonic rangefinders that auto shutoff if people get too close.  The garden is laid out  to allow good participant flow but prevent cars from driving in there.

Here are some renderings by Andy Lee showing how a simple petal shape can be repeated and attached at different points to create a wide variety of flowers.

Any opinions or ideas you’d like to pass to us?  Also, if anyone knows people who are interested in learning how to lay up carbon fiber, we’re getting pretty good at it these days and always welcome visitors to the shop.  False Profit Labs workshop days are Wednesdays from 6-10pm and Saturdays from 1-5pm in San Francisco.  Early versions of Carbon Garden will appear at the American Steel opening party and Fire Arts Festival in July.  Email: brett at false dash profit dot com if you want to get involved.

Rendering of Carbon Garden at Burning Man by Erik Walker

This entry was posted on Saturday, May 16th, 2009 at 11:20 am and is filed under Announcements, Carbon Garden, Models, Sourcing, Uncategorized, Workshop.