Began the day with a quick visit to see dad.. then drove north in meetings all  the way.. I really don’t loose any work time with this trip. .

Got home from Boston today at 3PM just in time for the UVM Engineering Senior Design Night

Bill G and I have been mentoring this team on a fun bubble column project for ECHO.   The device they built is a model of what we might one day do for the bubble column at ECHO.  It’s been an adventure.. lots of design changes.. lots of new stuff to learn.. and it all came together at the last minute. Literally.. Mona was fixing the last code bugs at 2:45 just as they had to move the device over to the Davis center.  The device reads the position of both your hands and uses that to modulate the position of lights.. that represent the lights in ECHO’s ceiling.   When you balance the positions just right, the bubbles stop for a bit and you’re rewarded with a cool light pattern. Simple and elegant.

 

folks seemed to enjoy the piece..

 

 

Family came by including Mona’s mom

and Samir’s  folks

 

It really looked nice, and the team was proud.. and I was proud of all they’d done and learned.   I was also pleased and proud to see all the other awesome projects folks had built

 

this is a wind powered streetlight

 

an autonomos quad copter.

 

a new frame for Aero

A powerful robot

 

a snowboard flex tester

It wsa great to see the energy and fun in the room.. i really, really enjoyed it.. COngrats to all those senior engineers !

 

night all, night sam

-me