 Hey guys, so my name is Anil Patney and I'm here at CES 2020 in Las Vegas and it's a huge convention and there's all kinds of electronics here and here I'm currently promoting my campaign, the campaigns to build an incubator in Austin, Texas and it's called Tiny Hacker House and it's a live work community event space where I invite hackers and makers to build innovation projects around sustainability and sustainable living and one of our projects is in the last three years we've been building these dome structures and experimenting with different materials, different structures and this is some examples of our manufacturing process where we have a 3D model that goes to our CNC machine that cuts out hexagons and pentagons out of aluminum composite material and then turns it into a kit that two people can build in three hours and this is a scalable structure and it can be a variation of sizes from a kid's dome to a pet's dome to an adult dome and their modular spaces and the largest is 300 square feet in size and our goal is to build a dome city and these are just some of our explorations and this is a 360 video I made about one of our other dome art installation projects and you'll see how this this approach is gonna change the structure of the dome of making it interactive. This is inside the dome? Yeah this is inside the dome. It looks psychedelic or it looks cool. Yeah these are all LED lights that may basically do sequences and we can program it to interact with people and sounds in its area and create interactive experiences in there. It looks awesome. Yeah thanks. So it's nice for a little party right? Yeah it could be used for parties, it could be good for like corporate events. How big is it? This one's about 25 feet tall so it's pretty large. Can you show how it looks from outside? Yeah let me see if I have a shot of that. Actually I don't have an outside picture of it this whole inside. Oh not another video right? Yeah. Do you have another image or something? Let me see. I might have a still let me see. Let's see if you can load that up. I have this actually. This is our dome. This is the dome that where I took to Burning Man this year and whoa this is a 3D model. There's all the panels and we built this in three hours two of us and we want to build a dome city so these domes can be used. They're modular spaces. They can be used for housing, temporary shelter, work spaces, off-grid living. They have showers, restrooms, everything integrated in there. At this event I was doing tea tasting so people that were at the festival came in, sat down, enjoyed some samples of tea by Rishi Tea and got to have a conversation and meet each other. Rishi is what tea? Rishi tea they make their own different grains of tea, tea leaves even but they're here in the US and they make this really amazing chai tea, masala chai tea which is really good so we did tea tasting in there but another scenario is these domes could be used for green houses too and so we want to grow food and vegetables in this space where in the future we'll have a vertical garden that people can put in their backyard and then they can grow their own produce and then cook and clean with health access to healthy food all year round. So it's like hard material is not like a tent? Correct yeah this is aluminum composite so it's actually really strong you could probably stand on the top of this structure and it wouldn't collapse it's actually quite heavy. Weather resistant? It is weather resistant we tested out here in the middle of the desert at 110 degrees temperatures and it didn't have any challenges it handled the dust it handled the dirt and all of the pieces have like these little angles on the end of them where it overlaps so that if it rained water would drip off the edge as opposed to you know leaking inside the cracks and so there's no open lines where traditional geodesic domes that they have where water can leak inside this prevents that from happening and the cool thing is our manufacturing process we can custom customize any part of these panels so if you wanted to add a door you wanted to add a different window we could integrate that into our 3d model and it would cut these pieces out with those changes in it and you could integrate that product or thing into this structure. How was the reception at Burning Man? Burning Man people loved it and it's funny because during the event people other people like tore down the signs and so it's really hard to navigate through the event and from one camp to another and we found that this illuminated wonder dome created acted as a landmark that people could understand like okay it's by that dome structure that's lit up and we're close to that you know and so meet us there or it was a meeting point and it helped people navigate around there. So you the only structure that didn't collapse in the whole Burning Man? Yes we did not collapse and the first challenge that we faced is on day one I put all my stuff inside of it and dust blew through the windows of the next morning dust everything was covered in dust and I guess one of our revisions is we're gonna actually fill these window spaces with actual windows and then that way we'll prevent the dust from coming into. Right and isn't it as good for the environment or no? Yeah I mean. You talk about sustainable. Yeah so it's low energy and we can harness the power of like controlling air hot warm and cold air and within a space so it's a lot more regulated so you instead of heating up the whole house you only have to heat one room like that's one of its big advantages is and the and the air because of its circular like dome structure like the air flows round naturally too and circulates throughout the whole place so that's another it bounces off the walls and then comes back into the center. So did you have a good CS? Yeah I did I'm building partnerships with a lot of the companies here and in the future I'll be integrating a lot of the technologies into this dome project but I'm also. What kind of partnerships? Hardware software like air like for cooling for heating and for lighting and just basically controlling all of the you know the toilets the showers the bathrooms and everything facilities like we'll be hopefully like integrating a lot more of these into the future but I'm running a campaign it's called tiny hacker house.com and it's a crowdfunding campaign and people can donate to the project and it will evolve and every time like all the people that follow it will get to and contribute to it will get to see it as it transforms into this place as it travels around the world. Nice and you based where? In Austin Texas. Has a lot of cool tech in Austin? Yes there's a lot of semiconductor companies a lot of hardware some of my friends here are NXP are showcasing and exhibiting here they have a lot of sensors and they do a lot of monitoring and all kinds of technologies. Do you use NXPs all over the or is it Nordic? Yeah something else. Yeah so NXP is has a whole suite of different sensors and some of my friends there I met up with them and talked about my project and they're really excited about supporting it and advancing it. Building an alternate community space for people that are homeless and affordable housing need affordable housing and access to like modular spaces and solving for gentrification. There's a lot of homeless issues a little bit in Austin right maybe a lot of the homeless moved from San Francisco to Austin. Is that true or is it just something right here in a podcast called no agenda? Yeah no that's true it is housing is deaf housing was a lot cheaper than California and Austin but since all the Californians are moving to Austin and acquiring real estate like the prices have started to go up and it's not as affordable as it used to be and there's a lot less real estate available now. So how affordable is this tiny hacker house? If it's mass produced let's dream about like big quantity. Yeah that's a good question I mean so we have like I can show you one of my cards here that has pricing information on it. So the prices start at $999 and it goes all the way up to $27,000 and these are the square footage so it tells you that if you had a four and a half feet in structure there's 16 square feet that's a small size. Is that only for a dog? Yeah that's a dog house so you can have it for your pets you can have it for your kids you can have it for you know adults your grandparents like and it goes all the way from 16 square feet to 650 square feet for the largest size we do right now. It's a castle. Yeah a castle the tiny dome castle