dad and I had a great adventure on Friday… First took a hike in the morning. Then we drove down to ours to Brattleboro to meet up with an interesting collection of friends. My friend Neil who is a professor at MIT had gotten a bunch of us together and included my friend Lars are used to be a generator was dead at artist asylum and is now attached base in Brattleboro, my friend Leo from hat club, my friend ‘Jen from the University of Vermont and our new friend Tom who is one of the founders of hatch space. Hatch base is a wonderful wood-based maker space down in Brattleboro. It’s a great funky or building and it is full of incredibly talented woodworkers. I’m so happy that Lars is now the executive director of it.… It was a great collection of people I’ve known from all different places all converging in one area. It’s been a great hour looking around the place

From there we drove up to East Dummerston a few miles north to Tom’s beautiful solar powered house. It really is a treasure with all custom woodwork.… Tom’s friend Johnny and his wife wendy showed up turns out that JOHNY was at IBMer for a long time… He’s also a great physical computing person. I think there’s some cool stuff we could all do together. It was a great evening… ‘Diane and I had to leave before dinner because we had guests coming to meet us in Richmond… But it was really nice to spend a little time with everyone before running out

We got back home around a 8:45 and our friends MICHAEL and Liz both showed up from different parts of the world. Both of them were getting together with us for a brainstorming session on Saturday about first robotics.… It was really nice having a beer with both of them.

nite all, nite sam

-me

Open the last two years ‘Diane and I have been part of a parking advisory committee for the town of Richmond. I think we’ve done a pretty good job of helping people enjoy Richmond’s mini outdoor resources while parking safely. One of the things that our group did was to create a new park called “overrockers” .

It’s the side of an old gravel mining facility it was a Bandan and became part of the town.… One of them things we’re trying to do is make it an even more accessible place to access the river. Today A group of us (John, willy Jon and I) Trumped around on the property trying to find a shorter access to the river that didn’t go through wetlands. It was nice and cold still so the bracket hadn’t grown up so we were able to see what we’re stepping on. We walked all around and believe we actually found a viable path. It was fun actually doing an explore so close to home. With any luck the new path we found will soon make it easier for people visiting Richmond to get their boats in tubes in and out of the water

nite all, nite sam

-me



Dan and I got out for a really nice hike in Honey in Hollow today. It’s definitely turning in the spring. They were still quite a bit of snow up there but there is more bare ground than snow.… The ground was still pretty frozen so we didn’t mind bushwhacking up… It was so great a sculpture still hanging on some of the rock faces. Really beautiful

Later in the evening ‘Diane and I attended a programming seminar given by our friends Chen and ‘Chris in association with her AI art project… One of the contributors describe the generative shape tool which to use genetic algorithms. Another student Showed us all the cool things you can do with P5JS… It’s a library built on my favorite programming environment called processing… It has some really nice tools for artists. check out the stuff here ! https://editor.p5js.org/Lapo/collections/IZ9J0Hm9Q

nite all, nite sam

me

Oh they get a great experience at Williston central school… A middle school near here. A group including my friends Herman, Shannon, Isa and Brielle went into a seventh and eighth grade class of 70 kids to talk about engineering, biomimicry and what we do at Aida. We had four independent classes but we taught and two teams. Showed them some cool materials that we use at our company to build our amazing airplanes and show them some basic engineering process… Then we had them engineer a structure using spaghetti, toothpicks, marshmallows… You’ve probably tried this yourself. It was really fun to see what the students came up with. They had some great insights and great questions.

What’s interesting for me is that I’ve usually done my own stick… The microvolts to Meghan Holt… This is a totally new set of messages for me… And it was fun to get my head around it

It was so nice to be with students again! Can’t wait to do it again

nite all, nite sam

-me