update 6-28-07<\/strong>: Steve Monahan gave me a hand last night welding the top and bottom of hemisphere 4. He’s got great technique. Hemisphere 3 still needs some love because of my crappy technique.<\/p>\nWe are going to try and weld just the interiors of the orbs. That does a great job of preserving the clean lines. We’ll see if that makes them strong enough.<\/p>\n
Photo: That’s Lisa doing some finish work on hemisphere #3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Lisa, Michael and I have been working on building more orbs. Lisa and I have been working on an aluminum orb with all the welds on the inside; we set it down next to the one with the welds on the outside and there was no question which shows off the cool lines of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":144,"url":"http:\/\/blog.orbswarm.com\/2008\/04\/04\/what-is-swarm\/","url_meta":{"origin":64,"position":0},"title":"What is SWARM?","date":"April 4, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"SWARM is a kinetic art work consisting of multiple semi-autonomous spherical robots (\"Orbs\") that roll under their own power. 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