Today things worked out.. … at least in a gadget sense… i made small progress on many fronts and it felt pretty good..
I woke to the aftermath of a 4AM cooking spree by Gabe and his friends.. yummmy…
It was the first mornng I noticed it being in the 40’s.. it’s definitly getting fall like outside..
I had a really full day of meetings.. first one at 7:30.. last one at 11PM… A few short breaks including this one when my friend Narayan came by to tell me that he and his wife are expecting their first child !
My day was spent mostly on the phone in meetings.. mostly good meetings today .. I did manage to do a little programming during lucnh while I was on the phone.. I finally got the spirometer interfaced to FLASH for my friend Peter’s NSF grant. He’s trying to see if video games can help kids with Cystic Fibrosis keep to their breathing exercise regiment. My job is to write the low levl interface code that translates the devices raw flow inout into a stream of XML data that the flash environment can read.. here it is working…
Around 6:30 I headed over to Homers with Seth and brenden.. We all worked on integrating the arms together and interfacing them to solenoid valves that we could control with our micro controller..
Here’s the assembled arm under computer control.. yee-ha
And finally the entire arm working under electronic control.
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Tonight was Brenden’s last nght working with us.. he heads back to school tomorrow. He’s been great to work with .. as have been all of the kids.
There was a houseful of peopke at the house tonight including Max, Gabe, Diane, Elsa , Jessie, Merideth, Anna, Ted, and Eric
Well.. gotta get to bed. we leave at 5 tomorrow to take max back to college.. It’s ben a good summer having him hear.. I’ll really miss him…
Gnite all.. gnite Sam
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