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Project: Blue Sky

An interactive art experience involving 3D image scanning, printing and drone delivery along with aerial footage projected into a personal 3D imax dome.

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Project: Blue Sky

Project: Blue Sky

Project: Blue Sky

Project: Blue Sky

Project: Blue Sky

An interactive art experience involving 3D image scanning, printing and drone delivery along with aerial footage projected into a personal 3D imax dome.

An interactive art experience involving 3D image scanning, printing and drone delivery along with aerial footage projected into a personal 3D imax dome.

An interactive art experience involving 3D image scanning, printing and drone delivery along with aerial footage projected into a personal 3D imax dome.

An interactive art experience involving 3D image scanning, printing and drone delivery along with aerial footage projected into a personal 3D imax dome.

Sandra Kwak
Sandra Kwak
Sandra Kwak
Sandra Kwak
2 Campaigns |
Black Rock City, United States
$4,725 USD 56 backers
60% of $7,800 Flexible Goal Flexible Goal
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THANKS TO FUNDRAISING EFFORTS AND DONATIONS WE REACHED OUR TARGET AND THE PROJECT WAS A MASSIVE SUCCESS!!!!

International Press Coverage 

Gizmodo: The Drone Aircraft That Could Save a Kids Life  

Wired Magazine UK: Blue Sky will use Drones to Deliver 3D Portraits

Fast Company Magazine: A Real Internet of Things for the Developing World

Huffington Post: Burning Man 2012: Creators Spend Countless Hours

DIY Drones: Using UAVs for Humanitarian Aid

Reddit: Drone Delivery Service Prototyping at Burning Man 

Burners.me: Get High with Blue Sky

Wanna give us some media love? Please publish our Press Release

Get involved with ReAllocate: ReAllocate.org/volunteer

 

Project: Blue Sky is the pilot for a technology / entrepreneurship center in a shipping container that will be deployed in economically underserved communities, providing resources and mentorship for local entrepreneurs to create and launch sustainable businesses.

The project is run by a non-profit called ReAllocate.org, which curates teams of world class talent and pairs them with specific technical projects, humanitarian organizations (other non-profits, NGOs) and resources to solve global challenges.

We are launching at Camp IDEATE at Burning Man, because the spirit of Burning Man is to actualize art and technology beyond our wildest dreams. Project: Blue Sky is the beginning of a larger effort that is creating portable infrastructure that will travel around the world.

  

Step 1: The Burning Man Experience 

Imagine that you are in Black Rock desert close to Center Camp. You step into a brightly decorated space surrounded by ancient statues. You are ushered into a shipping container that has been converted into a high-tech innovation lab. You and your fashionable friend strike a pose which is captured with 3D software and converted into a 3D model. You are given a GPS transponder and specific instructions for your mission. On the way out you catch a lecture on "Scientific Exploration" and watch some aerial 3D footage of flying over Burning Man projected in a 3D imax dome.

After you leave, your image scan is 3D printed into a miniature statue and loaded into a capsule on a multi-copter. The copter navigates to your GPS location.

When your GPS transponder goes off, you look up as the multi-copter hovers above you. It gently lowers a padded capsule with your statue of you inside. You unwrap a 3D medallion of yourself.

Your only responsibility is to return the transponder and tell us your story for our documentary.

3D Print and Scan

Aerial Delivery

Project: Blue Sky is revolutionary in many ways – the drone delivery system is proving a model for military technology to be used for humanitarian purposes. We are working on solving the last-mile delivery problem for instances such as dropping medical supplies after a natural disaster, or land surveying for environmental impact.

 

Step 2: 

After Burning Man, the Portable Innovation Center we are contructing for this project will travel to Alaska and work with 12 tribes who are being forced by climate change to migrate and have requested capacity building centers to create sustainable communities in their new location.

 

Shipping Container

 

 We are deploying units in Alaska, Oakland and Haiti.  

Some of Our Team Members

 

Norf

ReAllocate.org was founded by long time burner Dr. Mike North, who was a host of Discovery Channel’s Prototype This! where he created massive feats of engineering on very tight deadlines. Dr. North earned his bachelors in Mechanical Engineering and Masters/PhD in Materials Science and Engineering with a focus on rapid prototyping, biomimicry, and nanotechnology. He created ReAllocate to connect those at the Base of the economic Pyramid with the excess of the technology and resources that we enjoy.

Dara

Our Project Manager, Dara Dotz, is an industrial designer who has been volunteering her skills in off-grid villages in Nepal teaching global leadership and social entrepreneurship. She has worked in development of osseointegration and creation of prosthetic limbs, she has designed human powered vehicles, and developed interactive projected museum exhibits to educate on culture.

 

ZiV

Drone expert, ZiV Marom of ZM Interactive, owns a media studio specializing in motion graphics, web design, and web development. He builds his own drones and uses them to shoot badass aerial footage. 

 

Sandra

ReAllocate CEO, Sandra Kwak, is an entrepreneur on a mission to reduce global carbon emissions and increase human resiliency. She founded two energy efficiency companies and has an MBA in Sustainable Business. 

These are just a few of the ReAllocaters on our amazing team of engineers, finance wizards, builders, designers, movers, shakers and change makers!

 

Join Us

Project: Blue Sky will be located at camp IDEATE at 6:30 and Ring Road / Columbine, close to Center Camp. If you find yourself nearby on the playa, please stop by and visit our camp.

Whether you are coming to Burning Man this year or not, we would love for you to take part in bringing this project to life, supporting our global mission of providing access to technology and resources.

So far, thanks to contributions from our amazing funders and donors, we have been able to secure:

  • 3x 20’ Shipping Containers

  • An immersive video dome

  • 4x Cubify 3D Printers

  • Multi-copters (hex-, octo-, and more!)

  • Build space at 180º South

  • Re-Char Factory in a Box (metal fabrication facility - think plasma cutter and welding)

  • Sanivation Composting Solar Toilets

We need your help pulling together the remaining pieces to complete Project: Blue Sky. Your contributions will help us to obtain:

  • Video projector with fish eye lens to project amazing aerial footage we are collecting with our multi-copters on the inside of our dome - sharing the immersive 3D aerial experience!

  • Fabrication and of all the necessary infrastructure, materials and supplies

  • Food and water for our volunteers

  • Transport from Treasure Island to Black Rock City

Every dollar given to this project will not only provide a 3D interactive art experience which repurposes military technology for peace, but will benefit a project that puts capacity-building innovation hubs in economically underserved areas, providing access to technology and resources.

Thank you so much for your contribution.

 

 

 

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REALLOCATE HUGS

$10 USD
A contribution of $10 will earn you a big bear hug from a ReAllocater, a love letter from the playa, and free entry to our Gala of Gratefulness when we get back from the burn!
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September 2012
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TOTES AWESOME

$25 USD
This level donor gets a ReAllocate Tote Bag because you are totally awesome!!! And of course the hugs, love and Gala ticket as well.
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September 2012
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HATS OFF

$50 USD
In addition to a handy tote bag and gigantic hug, and Gala ticket, you get a sweet ReAllocate Hat with this package. Tip of the brim to you, my friend!
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September 2012
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THE OUTFIT

$75 USD
You are going to look so fly with your Project: Blue Sky ReAllocate T-Shirt (and your ReAllocate Hat, and your ReAllocate Tote Bag....not to mention you will be adorned with ReAllocate love at the Gala of Gratefulness)
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September 2012
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THE SUPERMODEL

$100 USD
Get an awesome 3D virtual model of yourself at Burning Man (if you are coming) or of a piece of art from the burn (if you are not coming) and tickets to our post burn Gala.
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September 2012
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STATUE OF YOU

$225 USD
Get a 3D statue of yourself printed at Burning Man (if you are coming) or of a statue of piece of art from the burn (if you are not coming) and tickets to our post burn Gala.
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September 2012
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CANVAS PRINT

$450 USD
Receive a beautiful print on canvas of a piece of Burning Man Art. (We will be capturing aerial footage by drone as well as 3D shots of you, your artcar, etc.) You will receive special recognition when you pick up your artwork at the Gala.
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DRONE DELIVERY

$750 USD
Get a virtual model and 3D statue of yourself on playa DELIVERED BY DRONE!! VIP Gala tickets await you after the burn.
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THE EXPERIENCE

$1,200 USD
Get a 3D virtual model, a 3D statue, a 2D canvas print, and DRONE DELIVERY!! ...And naturally, VIP Gala tickets.
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FULL IMMERSION

$2,450 USD
In addition to the IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE above, get a full, behind the scenes tour of ReAllocate's 3D Labs. We will roll out the red carpet for you at the Gala.
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IMMERSIVE DINNER EXPERIENCE

$5,000 USD
A 3D virtual model, a 3D statue, a 2D canvas print, DRONE DELIVERY, behind the scenes tour of ReAllocate's 3D labs, and a Gourmet Dinner with Dr. Mike North and other world class IDEATE innovators. Unleash the red carpets!
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