Tuesday night – Board, bored and board

Today  we were going to have a Board meeting of one of the three orgs I serve as a board member.. I realized that I take these roles on in the hopes of helping out. on casues I support.. . but quickly find I’m ill suited to board work. I find I don’t particularly like organizing things.. though I absolutely believe in the need of boards who are organized. I also really don’t like the financial parts  that boards have to do..eg budgets and fund raising / developement .   That often leaves me at best bored .. at worst  it makes me at odds with other board members who are really tryign to do the neccessary work to make these orginaztions effective.   In contrast, one of those Boards is actually about building printed circuit boards. . which is something I LOVE doing !!!!..

I think I need toe xtricate myselfe from the organizational parts and stick to making things..
What do you think  ?

 

 

Nite all, nite sam

-me

Monday night – good plane fun !

The big fun for today is that I got my 2nd revision of my Alia circuit board workign. Its part of the work I’m doing for  our Project OnBoard 

where we’re tryign to introduce 1000 hgh school kids aroudn the word to the fun of creatong Printed circuit boards. I did this as a demo of whats possible. THis board is in the shape of our Alia airplane.. it has 12 rgb leds per propeller and 8 for the tail . It doss all sorts of color patterns.. and has an inertial measurment uint that allow is to detect its pitch and roll. I have the lights reacting to that angle of the plane to demonstrate the force vectorign our plane does to keep its position in the air as it pitches and rolls. Its also a wireless device.. I hope to eventually make it into a controller for a flight simulator. .. hwo cool would that be ?!?!

 

I’ super happy  how this came out !nite all, nite sam

-me

Saturday night – Tims birthday , Veterns day

NIce home day . realized it was veterns day.. Sending out love  to my dad Hugh who was in the Navy and Dianes dad Gabe who was in the army. Thanks  for your service !

 

Spent the day at home workign on projects. This evening , Tim , Jen, Nate and Nates awesome new GF came by. It was Tim’s 60th birthday !. 

Super nice gathering for a super nice guy !

 

nite all, nite sam

-me