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Face to Face Tabling, Booths, Canvasing / Door knocking, Random encounters
Voice – Calling into talk shows, Loud speakers and megaphones, Internet radio, Low power radio
Physical Media:
In house production vs outsourcing:
We need to get a uniform design that can be ordered nationally but shipped locally from the dealer, with the idea of having the local groups purchase at a rock bottom price and vend wholesale to individuals who support Ron Paul, and to do so as a a fundraiser.
Signs - Yard, Large, Pole, Poster, Flyers, Murals, Barn painting
Buttons - Buying, Making, Button making machines and supplies
CD/DVD – Getting material and rights, Compression settings, Editing, Format conversion, Reproduction, Packaging and inserts, Graphics, Distribution
Banners - Making templates, Hanging and securing, Materials
T-Shirts - Shirt weight, Screen printing, Desktop transfer method,
Airborn Operations – Towed banners, Balloons, Balloons with custom logo, Hot air, Blimp, Aerial banner
Land Mobile - Vehicle wraps, Airbrushing, Painting, Vehicle mounted signs, Parade floats
Scratchpad
Have we got any EE's or EE students here?
Looking for someone to find a schematic or design a circuit for scrolling LCD screens, adaptable to multiple sizes – armband, small banners, etc. up to 4'x8' plywood boards, as well as develop instructions on how to build and program or interface it to a computer. Basing it on a PIC micro-controller would be ideal.
After that, if someone or a group is willing to buy LED's and electronic components in bulk (like fliers, they are a LOT cheaper in quantity) and put together kits that supporters can assemble.
He's something I wrote back at the beginning of February on the topic:
It is possible to convert a van or truck into a huge big screen TV on wheels, with the display visible to those outside. This is essentially a video billboard on wheels. See Make magazine, vol 8, p151-153. Convert as many as possible.
81 beltways
0.5M ppl per day each
40.5M ppl total
13.5 % of population
I have a feeling the video vans on overpasses or off on ramps and projectors would cause objection from the cops, claiming we were disrupting traffic. Consider if we made limited use of them and then on the eve of the IA or NH primary pull out 324 of them (8 per beltway) especially if we jammed/slowed traffic. Could probably get away with half that many. I'm betting something like that would make national news. (it would be hard to keep it a secret, unless a small group made them and the campaign as a whole was kept in the dark until the last minute).
Was also thinking how to do something almost as good but for a lot less money. I think a grid of LED's could be attached to some base - maybe even canvas, and used to stream messages and maybe very crude images depending on the density. That would be a lot less invasive to the vehicle used and could be shipped from state to state, as opposed to permanently modifying a van and transporting it. If it worked, it would be possible to FLOOD a city and less so a state with them in the days preceding an election.
I had more written up, but I'm not finding those files right now...
Some resources:
Van TV
LED
- Feeds4All
- How to make a LED T-shirt
- How to make a LED Matrix
- Walt's LED Sign Page
- Gizmologist's Notes on LEDs
- Graffiti Research Lab - Night Writer
Projecton tagging:
- Graffiti Research Lab - LASER Tag
- GRL Laser Tag Rotterdam - How To and Source Code
- Graffiti Research Lab - Blood Wars
- Slashdot - A Practical Guide to DIY LCD Projectors
- Lumenlab - DIY Projector Kits
- Lumenlab - DIY Projector
Traffic patterns:
Other political tech projects:
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Regarding lawn campaigning "on the cheap" here are some ideas where the use of Coroplast could definitely lead to some inexpensive and fun lawn signs (typically made with Coroplast). I called to ask if we have permission to use and was told by Ernest Hancock in AZ that the graphics were open source and have been used with the Ron Paul Revolution movement. In Denver, we found that we could get vinyl cheaper than Tyvek. You must make sure that whatever medium will hold the spray painted stencils. They use and offer a font called "Stencilia", however, you are not limited.
Here are 2 websites for free fonts:
Here are some links for "How To's":
- Coroplast (corrugated plastic posters):
- Tyvek (soft grommetted banners)
- Ron Paul Revolution - Phoenix This video shows how creative sign making can be.
- Instructions for making Ron Paul Revolution stencils and signs
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