Peregrinus

Peregrinus: Latin for wanderer, traveler...pilgrim.

Peregrinus: The revision, a new idea. How the world begins to change in one little box.

Let is be known that the compass is the most elegant tool. It does only what a madman can: it traces perfect circles. When concentric and compounded, they create patterns from nothing. Order from chaos: the beginnings of life.

I spent days drawing and trying to see pictures in the patterns. Simple patterns, complex; I couldn't see them until, frustrated, I set out to draw all the circles I could fit on the page by those lines. The base circle has a radius r and the largest circle I drew has a radius 6r. Until At last, began to see this: out of the mists strode the wanderer. The circles created a flowing cloak, shrouding a mysterious body. I knew, as soon as I saw the wanderer, that I had found it.

I went looking for equivalent words in French, Spanish, Russian, and so on, but the Latin translation in particular rang a bell. I like that it means not only traveler, but also wanderer, pilgrim, and crusader as well. It perfectly represents what I am trying to do with this ride. It helps that it sounds like Peregin Took, one of my favorite hobbits from Lord of the Rings. Tolkein, being a linguist by training, surely knew of this connotation.

I have a tendency in all of this to get melodramatic to the point of bad poetry, so let me get to the point: with the help of my friend in the 4001 complex, I transferred the drawings to a piece of 1/2 plywood. Using his bandsaw and drinking a 10.8% beer (not recommended or enforced by OSHA) made the cuts, though not without messing up my very first one (there are many lines on the page). The shape looks like this, to get an idea. You can see the accidental cut on the top right.

The layout for the speakers will look like this. The two 4x6's are at the front, and the two 4x4's are on the sides. In the center will be the batteries, wiring for the whole project (including three incoming power sources, a sound system, lighting, charge controllers, etc...Aiysh!) and so I'll probably need to get to it all...which is why on the end, near the head, I'll give it a drawer that can slide in and out and give easy access to all that stuff.

This is where I am currently at with the project. I've put in the ribs that will define the outside space, and working at making the speaker mounts, which is actually more difficult than I thought it would be. I will probably work more on it tonight and hopefully make some more progress!