Had a nice surprise today. A friend who had bought 3 alia ornaments powder coated them and brought them in to show me.. TPowder coating usines a a static electric field to stic polymer paint power to metal. You then back it to make a hard , durable and beutiful finish. Check these out!
Maybe I should do soem powder coated ones next year !
nite all, nite sam
-me
These days our planes are usually based over in Plattsburgh. They come over to North Hanger when we have special visitors. Today Alia SN2 came over for a visit. She was parked in the hanger where I work. Its nice to have her back here..
What a beauty !
nite all, nite sam
-me
Another beutiful morning. Dianen and I got out for a quick hike in the beutiful snow.. before its supposed to dissapear due to coming rain
Around midday I met up with my friends Beth, Shannon. Lelani , Rayan and Biannca who were working with some kids on some cool science visualization toys that Beth had found. One of the projects used mechanical devices to show circuit concepts. . A kid (or adult) could build simple mechanical circuits to understand the physics of what was going on.
THe second set used falling ball bearings to explain digital logic.You could build up simeple logic circuits and understand the boolean calculation that was going on.
For both of these , The constructed projects were beautiful and fun to play with.
We had several kids there evaluating the learnign toys.
I think these would be great to use in small groups. I’m hoping to get muy friends Greg’s view of them when i’m back in at work
nite all, nite sam
-me
I’ve been super happy with the response to our Alia ornaments. I had a little stand on our worktable where people could come by and get them. SInce the makerfaire I’ve collected another $500 which will be part of our Toys for Tots donation.
By the end of the week all but 3 of the 210 had found their way to someone’s tree.
That’s a happy thought ! 🙂
nite all, nite sam