Blissful day spent mostly by myself. Gabe was up at stowe,, Diane and I took a quick snowshoe this morning then She went off to a baby shower leaving me at home alone with the dogs. I think I went almost 5 hours without speaking.. It was such a treat.. I spent the time on a couple of geek projects I’d been putting off… I have pictures.. but for soem reason I can’ get pictures off my phone this evening (and I call myself a nerd ?!)
– project 1 was an emergency trasistorectomy on my medium sized tesla coil . Last time I used it it stopped with a bang and I knew soemthing was up. it tunrs out that it ate one f the four big IGBJT transistors in the driver. Luckily, I had areplacement.. unluckily.. those replacements are over 20 bucks each.. yow. It was a bit tricky finding the bad one and wrestling it free from its mates.. but once I got it extracated, the new one went in easily and voile la .. the thing sprung bakc to life with 40 inch sparks. Nothing liek a million volts ot make your moring.
– project 2 is goign to be part of my next big dream. I’v ebeen tlaking to some folks about building a really nice stylized statue of the lake Champlain monster “Champ” jus toutside the Echo museum. My idea is that folks would be able to send the scultpre a tetx message form their phone aand it would shoolarge jet of t fire (how cool is that ? ) it was inspird by a dragon sculpture I once saw in Krakow Poland. Today I did the first steps of wiring an odld cell phone up to intercept txt messages.. I also have a solar poweed charger for the thing.. so it should be self contained.. The whole thing is going to be pretty cool..
– project 3 is actually for work.. so I can’t talk much about it here.. / It’s a wireless project.that invloves both hardware and software ; I realize that this was the first time I’ve picked up a soldering iron ithe course of my day job in a long time.. actually.. maybe in forever.. I hope to get some more time in that tomorrow..
– project 4.. after gabe got home, he and I completely finished his splitboard. It’s a conversion in which we cut an old snowboard of Sam’s in half then addedsoem hardware from a kit that allows it to clip back to gether as a snowboard, or unclip into two skis to be used with climbing skins. It’s been a great project.. and it’s been really fun to make togeter.. Gabe is hopign to test it out tomorrow.
Hmmm.. I guess that’s all for the day.. I love these islands of peacein my busy life.. Hope you all found peace today too
nite all.. nite Sam
-me
ps. The Engineers paradise vid is up to 26,000 hits. I think we’re going to rerecord the chorus tomorrow based on a bunch of feedback. Any other suggestions while I’m in there editing ?