Busy day. Just finished my work and it's almost 11pm. I did have some fun today,though. Before work I went to the Vermont fablab at uvm and helped prep WCAX host Molly Smith for a piece on the high school summer program that my friend Mike F is holding in the lab.

I met the kids about a week and a half ago.. It was so great seeing the progress they've made on their robots.. I walked in this morning and they were soldering, coding and cutting out things on the laser and printing on the 3d printer. I wish I had that kind of maker experience when I was oin high school ! Check out these cool devices they've built

This guy is programmed to find other small robots and catch them in its jaws.. Hence it's name 'the lobster' . It worked just as advertised !

I gotta say, seeing those kids working in this space we created did my heart good.were making a whole new crop of makers !

Speaking of makers.. The Champlain Maiker faire (sept 29th, shelbourne farms) is actively looking for makers of all types.. High tech, low tech, craft, food, music, you name it. The event is going to be awesome… We're even bringing in some surprise guests. Please check out http://champlainmakerfaire.org and sign up to be a maker… Or send it to friends who you think would enjoy showing their stuff..

Ok..gabes home with ice cream.. Gotta go

Niall, nite Sam

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j1I had an incredibly busy and no so exciting day working.. so I’m bringing in a pinch hitter for excitement. While I was working yesterday afternoon,  Gabe and his biddies accidentally ‘fell’ from the richmond bridge.. the funny thing is they fell many times.. and kept on falling..  I myself have fallen from that same bridge many times..

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Woke 'early' this morning… (8 am) to find most of the entire campground still asleep.. Hat what happens when the last musical set ends at 4am.. I actually hit the hay kinda early last night.. I caught the absolutely wonderful late night set of STS9 with Ben and the folks from the bio bus.. But I decided to skip the 2-4am set of The Eall, a pink Floyd cover band (not huge fan of pink Floyd.. Not sure why) the sts9 show was the perfect ending of my visit to the vibes.. I really like electronic music.. And this was exceptional stuff.

Overall, the trip to the vibes was great.. It was wonderful hanging out with Gary and his family, paul, and kenny. The uvm students had a ball, and did a GREAT job showing off their project. I had some great requirements aching for my hoop p roject and I met lots of nice hippies.. One other thing I noted was how many people figured out that I was from the Colony.. In fact it happens more and more now. I think it's because the show is now on Netflix. That's always fun. Because people have questions about the show.. It was also a good place to come from while we're there talking about the benefits of solar power generation.

I'm feeling recharged from my trip..music does that for me. It's funny how I can channel the energy I get from music and people into my work.. And I need that energy right now. I'm insanely (!!!) busy at work and trying to focus on 3 key projects.. This will be a busy coming set of weeks… I just need to keep the music track going in my head

🙂

Nite all, nite Sam

-me

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Another day at the vibes.. I spent the day talking to folks about solar power .. The day was clear and warm.. Nothing like the cold rain of yesterday or the 100+ temps of this time last year. The weather put folks in the best possible mood. The funny thing is… The whole thing made me a little restless.. I'm enjoying myself.. And at the same time I'm thinking of all the stuff I need to do at work and home. Wish I could drop that worry….

Anyway.. It really has been a Greta trip.. The uvm guys have had a great time.. Which was important to me… And I had some great time to test out my hoop.. Once again last night I had many folks come and ask to try the hoop. Feedback has been great.. But I really need to drop the weight. I noticed one woman today who has a professional sequencing hoop set.. $400 each.. I am eager to see them.. Here are some hoop shots from last night..

today was a perfect day for showings folks solar technology… Here's Gary's solar oven backing cookies

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Folks were always hanging around the bus.. It had a really nice feeling

The organ donors guys are a few tents down.. They have a samstones on their table which makes me happy

The bio bus guys had a good crowd too on their optical and electron microscope demos..

Here's the bus from the bay side

Some real colorful characters here

Jeff and I set up the solar scope and I showed hippies the sun.. Not much going on there today.. Just one small sunspot.. Do you see it ?

Ran into lots of folks from vt

We were talking when everyone started looking up.. 5?planes making computer generated messages in the sky.. I Thout it was very cool until I saw it was an ad for a casino

We also had folks doing pedal power to help charge phones.. .. Beleive it or not.. One rider usuall cou ld provide enough power to run all th e many phone charges we had going

Always something cooking in the solar stove as well

Some things were jus like last year.. Ugh !

Heard some great music.. Mickey hart was great.. As was deep bonanza blackout t heard everything fine either from the bus or near the stage

We've just set up the scope of r tonight.. Should be fun…

ok.. Now to go out and do some more music.. More tomorrow..

Nite all, nite Sam

-me

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