Matt and Waterfall

From your unofficial NYIT SD photographer

I've posted the many many photos I took in DC on Flickr! Enjoy, everyone! http://www.flickr.com/photos/nyitsd2007/sets/72157602479778517
Heather

Barbara + John

"Livability"

So much love

half awake, half asleep

The Monument

The Washington Monument reflected in our roof pond.

Open House

BP's ad unwittingly promotes our house. Their ads for the Solar Decathlon are all over the DC metro system.

Ryan and our vegetable garden

Leeba

late night

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patricia and copper

On the Mall

We're here, in Washington D.C! Feels great to be back. The house went together smoothly the first night/morning. The deck was completed yesterday and for some the adrenaline lasted late into the night and so the planters went in too. We lifted the batteries into their home in the deck (a future gardening tools box, I think) and wired them up. Solar panels are getting a slow start because the sun is intense and the heat sweltering. At least it's not raining. Everyone's excited because we just received the pod and there was a giant jar of peanut butter inside. Spirits are up and at this moment Matt M. is thoroughly enjoying an orange- too much pizza and pasta already I guess.

we r here

next stop: Washington, D.C.!!

A few of us worked through the night to get the house ready for shipping. The house came apart with no problems.

-mike finch

PEX

Mike Finch lays in PEX for our roof pond.

Zinc cladding

Tom sent me this terrific photo of the finished zinc cladding. I love how sleek, modern and also residential it looks. It's very appropriate for a solar home on Long Island. hk

OPEN House=OPEN Source

This is an announcement that we are now connected to OPEN ARCHITECTURE NETWORK. Check out the posting at http://www.openarchitecturenetwork.org/node/1081
OPEN House is open access and open source so that many can contribute to its making and through feedback it can evolve.

Post Send Off Party Observations

I find it interesting to note that there was a constant stream of people visiting the site after the send off party Friday and well into Saturday. The media exposure and the name OPEN House served to heighten accessibility, inviting people from a variety of demographic segments and lifestyles. All had an extreme thirst to understand this technology and several attempted to hire the students to build them a home. Many asked me as I approached the site, "Is this the open house?" The name seemed to convey a refreshing technological transparency that is often missing in society today.

Waterfall

Engineering Team Leader Dan Rapka tests out waterfall

Latest Media Coverage

Check out the segment about OPEN House from the open house/sendoff on 9/21. Reporter Brett Larson interviews Matt Vecchione and Ted Bier. A great news piece.

http://www.myfoxny.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=4427890&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=3.1.1

On 9/20, Newsday featured NYIT's 2007 Solar Decathlon team. It is a very well written article about our project. View the photo slide show.

http://www.newsday.com/news/columnists/ny-d5380843sep20,0,6554668.column

An Associated Press story posted on WCBS-AM's Web site. It is listed in their Top News section!

http://www.wcbs880.com/Students-Showing-Off-Solar-Home-Today/979175

Welcome

Welcome to our new blog! Hope to see you all tomorrow, September 21st from 10-1pm at our official send off at the site!

Michele