[shai-hulud] Project status

From Mahdl-T

The worm build seems to always teeter on the fence as to "is it going
to make it this year?". Most of my pledge of the cost of everything
permanently on the bus is fulfilled, and we have a great deck. We have
a good stairway that tons of people used at Soak, and railings, cables
all around, wood walls filling out the profile up top. We have started
building out the worm-shaped frame.

We have spent all donations. Now, to move forward, we have your future
donations, and what BenD and I put in from now on. We have delivered
on budget, and have received a donation of a sound system. Cameras
turned out to be cheaper than expected. There's $1000-2000 remaining
that we need to spend. Here's what we still need to do:

Day or night permit:
Worm structure and ribs
Mouth structure
Shade poles on top
Mount speakers, wire sound system
+
Night permit:
Mouth lighting tricks
Rib lighting
Camoflage most of the bus
Run power up to roof
add headlights

Day permit
Skin it
Hook up cameras, combiner, monitor
Hook up intercom
Hook up serious Mister fan for driver

Bonus
Fancy mouth bits
Mouth chomp controls

On the issue of skinning it, we have a better plan now, several of us
agree it should work, is easy, packs up small, and doesn't involve a
zillion parts.

Schedule-wise, I believe if we finish the structure this month, we'll
be riding the sands this year, me wormies. How are you going to help?