Busy day at work.. lots of fun stuff happening .

Before work, DIane took a quick ski.. supposedly we’re getting rain at the end of the week.. and want to make best use of the snow we have

yoga tonight was a packed house.. always oen of my favorite days of the week.. 

Diane is soooo wonderful !

nite all, nite sam
-me

Today is the beginning of the Consumer Electronics Show.. one of the biggest trade shows in the world.. I heard this year 140,000 peopkle are going. I have a big interest this year .. my friend Lisa  from AMD  is giving the kick off keynote.. . AMD has been an amazing sponsor of our work at Hackclub.. and we are SO grateful.
In mid December,  AMD and Hackclub put on a hardware AI hackathon we called Prototype.  THe entire event was organized by Hackclub members .. all under 19 years old or younger.   I helped with the organization and spent 72 hours there beign the hardwre supply guy.  THe goal was to use an AMD AI PC and an open osurece robotic arm to do some incrediible things. 

Tonight Lisa chose to end her keynote by bringing the three winning teams from the hackathon to CES.. and braought our first place team up on stage !.  This team  built an amazing ‘drink machine’ that used ai to drive the robotic  arm  to randomly choose a soda type,   find the corresponding by AI viaion, pick up the correct can and deliver it to the user. Like all the other projects at Prototype this project was done in less than 3 days. I was so porud for the hackclubers and what they accomplished.. and so very grateful to Lisa and AMD for showcasing the need to build more AI hardware talent in this country.  

I felt so good watching this.. not because we did it.. but because it allows us (hackclub) to expand our efforts to help even more kids fall in love with hardware design

nite all,. nite sam
-me

I’m really enjoying this full moon.. and i’m also enjoying my new phoen and its camera.. This is a non retouched picture.. 

we’ve come a long way !

I spent the day workign on projects for work and fun.. I made good progress on a project I’m doign with freinds mike. kaie, suze. esteben and greg to create music effects modulated by the musicians mental state. My work now is to ge the current set up in a smaller package.. I got the whole thing runnong on a raspebrry pi.. and its running great !

nite all, nite sam

-me

We took a very fast hike up to the duxbury window this morning.. we were expecting rain.. but the conditions were great

While the rain never came, the skis were pretty cool. here’s the full moon ! with jupitor right next door .

Happy full moon !

nite all. nite sam
-me