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Sam Alcorn

Sam Alcorn

Los Angeles, CA, US

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Honorarium Grant installation for Burning Man 2013. Steel space frame after Peter Jon Pearce. Every piece identical, on my insistence. (Got 550 made) Polypropylene trampoline infill designed by me. Interactive LED lighting and touch sensors controlled by 6 distributed microcontrollers, central fanless computer (no moving parts) running software programmed by Peter Pastor, now working at Google Robotics. All-DC power system with battery bank charged by 1kW solar array designed and installed by me. 

 
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Status: Built
Location: Black Rock Desert
My Role: Designer
Additional Credits: Matt Gilio-Tenan, Ben Kalenik, Peter Pastor, Rich Busby, Andy Heom,