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Non-smoking, any gender, over 18 preferred are my preferences.

PS. If you see this Zemric, please contact me on aim, I need help to coordinate who we have so far.

Hey there, I'm trying to look for people that are on staff but don't yet have a place to stay. me and a friend are grouping togeather and can help split the costs but I've been told I need atleast two more members to qualify. I'm not too particular on who as long as there won't be issues among those in the room.

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ok I've forwarded the message to your E-mail

What would you like me to put in the E-mail?

thanks for the info, I'll try to be patent about it. although one of my big conserns this year is the cost of lodging, the reason why I'm hoping to get a discounted room for joining staff.

Hi, I sent this to tech through E-mail hoping that they would consider me for full staff this year, seeing as how I've done this for close to 4/5 years now as a volunteer but I have yet to get a single response from them. I don't know about during the con, as far as tech goes, but for setup and tear down I made a sizable dent in setting stuff up and taking it back down, including stuff that the OAV people set up, last year and I would like to offer the same contribution this year as I have plenty of experience. Kava suggested that I attend one of the meetings to ask about it but I am unable to afford a 8 hour round trip due to gas prices. IF I do get on staff I'll likely be able to arrive on thursday for the begining of setup and stay through monday evening for teardown.

Hello there, I've been volenteering for atleast 4/5 years now and I thought I might ask if I could become an official staff member this year, having basicly done the same thing for 2k8. All of the years I've volenteered, I helped both the tech department and the OAV staff set up and take down the video rooms before and after the con, which was my primary reason for being in tech and I'd like to offer my experence for this year as well. During the "off hours" in the tech department, I spent the rest of my on the clock hours watching the doors and checking IDs.


    Last year, in no particular order, I helped with:

    Helping the OAV staff set up the screens, platforms and speaker wiring in the main video rooms.

    Wireing our own equipment in place and taping it down the wires running accross the floor, ran equipment from storrage to where they needed to go and retreaving "lost equipment" such as missing microphones from rooms that either had too many or didn't need them.

    Moving equipment from the loading docks to where they needed to go (most of it to the ballrooms for the OAV people).

    I have not managed any of the equipment while in use aside from ocasionaly fixing a crosswired speaker, which was always done before show time.

    The other main problem for me would be that due to living 4 hours away, I most likely will be unable to attend any meetings outside of memorial day weekend.


    If you accept me I would also like to be signed up for one of the staff rooms I was told about to help me afford my attendance.

    Thank you
    Kyle Stabell

[We still need permition from con staff to bring it on site when finished and will not start construction until we get the OK.]

Project update: We are currently in the design phase and have collected quite a few pictures, to avoid some mechanical issues with the legs, we will be constructing the Tachikoma as they were seen in season 1 of SAC, we are currently focusing on the internal mechanics and electronics for the inside of the control pod as well as starting work on the camra and motor control design.


We still need permition from con staff to bring it on site when finished and will not start construction until we get the OK.

The general consensus is that as long as it follows our weapons policy, it is OK. This is a special case and there are other questions to be asked, so please email me specs and design images (I promise not to steal your 'cosplay' idea) at milton @@ fanime ... com and I'll get it reviewed.

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We are currently just starting the design prosses, we don't even have any specs to give out yet. As for weapons, the only thing that's been considered is a possible nerf ball launcher in place of the machine gun that would be part of the right arm, which we make exclude anyway. If you have any questions that can't be answered here please PM me.

If you want I can send you our sorce images that we're using to get design ideas but I doubt it will help much sence the pictures are of small models.

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[We still need permition from con staff to bring it on site when finished and will not start construction until we get the OK.]

Project update: We are currently in the design phase and have collected quite a few pictures, to avoid some mechanical issues with the legs, we will be constructing the Tachikoma as they were seen in season 1 of SAC, we are currently focusing on the internal mechanics and electronics for the inside of the control pod as well as starting work on the camra and motor control design.


We still need permition from con staff to bring it on site when finished and will not start construction until we get the OK.

I actualy got an idea off of a video for one of those R2 units I saw on youtube not too long ago about using the motors from wheel chair lifts although I'm wondering if that would be enough sence the tachikoma is gona be atleast 3x the size of that R2D2

Hello everyone......heh, it's been quite a while sence I've posted here...

Anyway when I was at the con this year me and my friend came up with the idea of building a full-scale tachikoma to bring to the con in 1 to 2 (or more) years time and I'm wondering what people here would think about that, I spoke to con ops before the con ended and said if approved by the staff it may end up becoming an exibit once finished.

I am putting this thread up mainly because con ops suggested posting here about it to get the attention of the other staff heads but I would also be happy hear any suggestions on how to build it.


The Tachikoma we will be building will be compleatly operational with the exeption of the working AI and operational weapons (with the possible exeption of a nerf-ball equiped machine gun), with it being manualy operated in the same manor as in the series, with a person inside the control pod.

Below will be the steps in it's compleation with the actual construction start time being dependant on money and resorces,

The first phase will be gathering pictures from all angles of the tachikoma as well as gathering the exact dimentions for it.

In the next phase we will be building a digital model of it in a 3D rendering program from the inside out, at which point we will be getting the info on all the parts we need while making sure the parts will fit correctly inside the shell.

The third phase will consist of starting construction of the skeleton of the actual robot and fabricating custom parts including any special circutry.

The fourth phase will mainly consist of running operating tests which could result in modifing the internal design to resolve any problems we come accross such as stability.

And in the final stage we will have a 2nd round of tests with the unit compleatly assembled, making final adjustments to the programing and fine tuning preformance.

Almost done with my costume corrections!

...which means I might have to buy more haircolor... *snif*

i dont have hair dye or any thing like it so i have to go w/ my natual hair color brown XD tho i wish i did have some

eh, close enough....unless it's changed from the last time you could still pull it off that way, more or less

I'm definatly being kenshin on Saturday, Monday I'm going as Ranma and Sunday is a toss up between the two

Well, now that that's taken care of, what eals are we going to talk about till the con?

how about possible unscedualed get togeathers for the days I am there?

....correcton, for those who pre-registered, it starts a week from tomorrow

*looks up the time*....damn its the same day as the Ranma gathering, that one is the one gathering I'm comited to ....well I guess this Kenshin will just be roaming around the center unless a random photo op pops up

I doubt that I'll be going on friday....my confermed days for being at the con are sat-mon

It would such a shame if you can't make it on Friday. But, there's always the Shonen Jump gathering, you know?

haven't been informed about that one

remember guys that it's now crunch time for organizing this, fanime technicly starts a week from friday

I doubt that I'll be going on friday....my confermed days for being at the con are sat-mon

Right.

So, any more people coming as some sort of Ranma character? Or are we the few, the proud, the mari-- OH. Sorry. I mean, the few, the proud, the Ranma ½ cosplayers?

Are Ranchan 06's friends still coming?

I say again contact the diviant art dealers about Kuno, Ryoga and Nabiki

correction, it's the distorted visions dealers.... the girl who was nabiki has an account on here....

:shock: Guys, we need to inform BS-san about the time and place, and that we'll be eveb having an RK gathering.  I am so glad that the Compatition is on Sunday, but we have to tell BS-san about it or it won't be offishial.  Whoever is in charge of the thred, go tell her NOW!!!!! :evil:

don't look at me....I'm a partisapant not an organizer....at least not a very good one, when I am being one