long productive day.. ended at Generator. Good buddy David came b=in to check the place out as well ..

I had to stip a few times to take phone calls form asia

.. but managed to get some tinkering in in spite of that.

Helped Matt get his wire bender motor working.. So cool !

ok..falling asleep here.. more tomorrow.

nite all. nite sam

-me

so hot and humid.. hit 85 and i could hardly move. Had a fun day anyway.. Began with a visit from old freind Seth and family ho are visiting from chicago.. through them in the pool to keep them cool !

from there i jumped in the air-conditioned car (relief) for the quick drive to Waterbury resevoir.. for the Vermonts Own MIT (VOMIT) club picnic. We had nice showing today despite the heat.. good catching up with so many nerdy friends..

Our mascot TIM (aka MIT backwards) was there presiding

nice dinner here with max and friend sara..    lying in bed now trying to stay cool !

hope you are cool too !

nite all, nite sam

-me

Great laid-back day. Spent the morning on a beverage project, Nice lunch with Diane and Max… And and then spent the afternoon working at the generator.

First order of business there was a piece of investigative engineering. Our friend Bob had brought a medical device that uses trans cranial electrical stimulation. He wanted to know what sort of electrical stimulation was going on. We ended up hooking it up to Scott and took a bunch of measurements and look at waveforms voltages currents etc. Hard to tell what’s going on there but it’s a pretty sophisticated device to be sure. The manufactures claims that it’s good for anxiety, insomnia and depression.… I don’t know about that but it makes some pretty waveforms.

Once we done that… We shifted our attention to the new Tesla coil that Scott has built for me out of the wreckage of my last one. He’s redesign this to make it John proof… My goal today was to get the midi interface working from my iPad… Success!

here is it playing Stravinsky’s la sacre du pretemps

Ok..all for now

Nite all, nite sam

– me

Just back from a great jolts and volts show for the governors institute on engineering. Its one of my favorites every year. About 90 really smart and nerdy high school kids who have opted to spend part of their summer geeking out at a sleep away camp around science and engineering.the kids wer awesome tonight. Smart and funny.

After the show they had condiment wars. Basically two folks dousing each other with either ketchup or mustard.. Then going to wash it off int he slip and slide. Ewwwwwwww

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Good yucky fun !

Night all, night sam

-me