After work, Clay came over ot help me on a difficult work model I’m building (it has 9 motors !)
While eh was there, Rebar came by. I’d connected them because rebar is lookign for the perfect telescopign linear accelerator for his project with Ben.
C alay had made a very cool telescoping arm for his teams FTC robot.. it used nesting square tubing and,. spring steel coils for push out, and a geared motor. pully and unstretcahbel nnylon cord for retraction . It super well design.. Not srure if it meats rebar/bens indeas.. We’ll see
Later that evening I came across DIane working on her famous mole style chili.. Check out the number of spices and other secret ingredients that go in there .. ..
Worked at home on projects.. then late afternoon we headed to Woodys for my freind Zach’s birthday party. Zach is the founder of Hackclub / Her’s an amazing guy with a great vision for bringing STEM skills and making to high school kids all around the world. There are at least 30,000 kids who are part of hackclub. Zach and I co-created Project OnBoard a prorogram for introducing high school kids to the jous of makign preinted circuit boards. Over the past year we’ve given $100 grants to build PCB’s to 730 kids around the world.. Its been great workign with Zach on this
Today Zach turns 26.. his mom and dad are in town to celibrate. We had a great time explorign the woods around woodies place, eating cake and playing an awesome game of hide and seek .
We arent sure.. but we think we accidentally caught the comet in this picture. it was to be its bpaeak day.. visible in western sky just at sunset.. whcih is where we are looking //
