More pictures and clips from “Camp Las Cruces”. For each picture, click on the thumbnail to view a larger version of it. Double-click on the arrow next to the speaker icon to hear a short audio clip describing what’s going on.
The Lonely Tether Machine (Ken Davidian narrating).
Punkworks 3 meter dish (Kevin Estrabillo narrating).
TurboCrawler under construction (Lutz Klueber narrating).
All for today – more tomorrow!
There are now six teams onsite; LiteWon (the High School team), TurboCrawler (the German Team), Kansas City Space Pirates, Starclimber, and two of the Canadian teams, Snowstar and Punkworks.
Tonight an all-hands meeting was held to talk about various things, most importantly when the qualifiying runs would start. The teams wanted to start qualifying on Wednesday, so that means Wednesday and Thursday are going to be pretty full. Perhaps some can be ready by tomorrow and lighten the last-minute load a bit.
Here’s a picture of Ben Shelef running the all-hands meeting. Click on the thumbnail for a larger version.
Here’s a picture of some of the team members attending the all-hands meeting. Again, click on the thumbnail for a larger version.
And here’s a picture of Allen Atamer and the Punkworks team Rectenna. Click on the thumbnail for a larger version and double-click on the arrow next to the speaker icon to hear Allen explain what is in the picture.
I had a short conversation yesterday with Vince Lopresti of the Dallas SpaceMiners Team. By the time you’re reading this, he should be in Las Cruces with two complete Climbers and parts for third. Listen to what Vince has to say about the competition and his chances by double-clicking the arrow to the right of the speaker, below.
And, on a happy note, Team TurboCrawler (the German Team) had their equipment clear customs and arrive today, onsite. So, we should have the benefit of their best efforts.
Two more pictures from today’s activities at the Fairgrounds. Click on the picture thumbnail to see a larger version. Double-click the arrow next to the speaker icon to hear a short audio clip describing what’s going on.
Ben Bakhshi with climber lighting equipment (audio clip narrated by Ben Bakhshi).
Ben operating Forklift carrying Qualifier rig (audio clip narrated by Ken Davidian).