After 5.5 hours of setup at Maker Faire 2009 tangolumen was non-functional.

Either I screwed something up in the setup or something broke in shipping (or both… or option C [to be named later]) but whatever the cause, I didn’t bring the tools with me I need to really debug it, nor did I really have ample time (or the heart) to rip it back up and fix it.

Now there are two things you can really do in a situation like this. You can just accept that it’s broken and prepare yourself for a weekend of saying “Well…this is my project, here is what it is supposed to do…but it’s broken” or you can hack together something new. I went to the hardware store and picked up enough parts to hack together with the laser cut pieces I brought to control Tang