March 08, 2015 Kriby’s son Alec had a school project on Greek Mythology and they worked on a costume. Hope designed a Pegasus on the shield cut from pink Styrofoam. We installed the 2 strands of 50 Pixel lights into the top of the OctoPod. The roof of the pod was pegboard and the individual […]

March 01, 2015 The manufacturing of the fake corn and stalks was completed along with a scenic corn field backdrop. We used the tarp that the corn was painted green on. It already had some of the corn stalk outlines. Hope finished it out to make it look like a corn field.   The door […]

February 28, 2015 From Heidi… “Last Sunday we completed Build #5.   We made 24 stalks of corn without getting high, Jose repaired the “turd” door on the pod AND got the router working so that we could cut some really cool panels for the front.” It was decided that one of the scenes was going […]

February 21, 2015 A roof is added to the pod. Using scrap peg board painted black, the roof is added. We latter made use of the holes in the peg board to insert Pixel LEDs into.   Several view port ideas where discussed quickly put to the test. The final idea was to use metal […]

February 13, 2015 Serious work begins on the OctoPod. The pod takes shape…the walls are built and erected and bench seat is added to the inside.