ALL SYSTEMS GO! THE FIRE TETRIS KICKSTARTER HAS BEGUN! This is YOUR chance to be part of history and help Fire Tetris make it to the playa! You’ll even get some killer swag for your donation! Can’t donate? Share the link! *Can* donate? Share it anyway!!

NOTRE KICKSTARTER A COMMENCÉ! Aidez-nous à amener Fire Tetris à Burning Man! Nous avons même de beaux cadeaux pour vous remercier de nous supporter. SVP partager ce lien à tous, que vous puissiez faire un don ou non.

Click here: Fire Tetris Kickstarter

Copy the following link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/917357469/fire-tetris-at-burning-man

Or watch the video below:

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– Thank you so much from the whole team! Merci beaucoup de toute l’équipe!

We’ve installed the first batch of flame heads and heat shields on one panel, and we’re now busy getting it ready for testing at FireFly!

We also have the ceramic igniter bodies on hand (thanks, Tony!), and started mounting them on the panels, along with wiring them using high-temperature oven wire. Now onto wiring the solenoids, igniter power supplies and control electronics!

We’re getting really close to putting some propane in this thing!!
Also, TigerTank.

Attention music producers!

Have you always secretly been wanting to remix the Tetris theme song? Would you like to have your music played as part of a major art installation at Burning Man 2015?

If so, then this is your chance! We’re accepting “remixes” (broadly defined) of the Tetris theme music to accompany our Fire Tetris project. Pretty much anything goes – the music can be as tetrissy or un-tetrissy as you like, any genre, etc. Just remember that it will be the soundtrack to people playing a 27′ high game of Tetris made of fire and steel on the playa. (!!!!!)

To get started, you can download the MIDI file for the original Gameboy ThemeA music here. But of course feel free to use any other theme, or go about incorporating the theme as you wish.

~Payment will be bragging rights for you. …We’ll also happily send you some Fire Tetris swag =) ~

Please e-mail your remix to firetetrismusic@gmail.com

Looking forward to hearing what people come up with! Please feel free to share this call far and wide, to anyone who may be interested.

Deadline for submissions is July 31st!

Here’s our art grant application, as submitted to Burning Man Arts.

• Application text, as submitted
• Diagrams
  • On Playa Layout
  • Fuel System Block Diagram
  • Control System Block Diagram
  • Electrical Block Diagram
• Renderings
  • Full Rendering, front view
  • Full Manifold rendering
  • Single 5×5 panel: frame and manifold
  • Single 5×5 panel: frame, manifold, and fire boxes
• Other technical drawings
  • Firebox cut plan
  • Fuel Manifold Detail
  • Gas Regulator Detail
• Project Management
  • Montréal Build Plan (PDF)
  • Montréal Build Plan (interactive)
  • On-Playa Build Plan (PDF)

And finally, here’s what one pixel looks like.  Now just imagine 200 of these and you’ve got the idea!