"Mass" fairy shrimp production begins!

 

"Mass production" is underway, especially now that the weather has shifted into at least of week of rainy days.

Fairy shrimp are now created by batch processing (cutting, sewing, rodding...) instead of individually.

1. Cutting:

2. "Eyelash" filling:

3. Sewing (While Mom looks on and wonders how I keep from sewing my fingers together)

4. Gluing on the googly eyes!

5. Cutting the individual phyllopods.

6. Assembling the light and spin mechanisms.

7. And now we have a pile of fairy shrimp that won't fit in the van!

Fairy Shrimp on Parade!

 Some surviving members of the 2017 brood danced in the 2023 "Bell Buckle RC Moonpie Parade".

Since the community event was celebrating somewhat esoteric commodities (RC Colas and Moon Pies) there was not an emphasis on Burning Man, just FUN and Fairy Shrimp!

The 2.0 prototype

 

The design modifications are incorporated into the prototype for the 2.0 version.

There is some sacrifice of biologically oriented detail to reduce the amount of material waste and add a little personality to them.

The 2017 batch was concerned about the directions we humans were choosing to take, 

but these younger critters just want to have fun!

This one danced into a line of severe thunderstorms (and survived!)

and now gets to relax in a gentle breeze: