Very peaceful day. Spent some of it making some repairs in the shop.. Fixed my new tesla coil so it can play music while throwing 3 foot sparks . (Scott- either the decoupling caps on the pots or  load resistor across the optical transmitter fixed it.. not completely sure why, but I can run it up to  100% with full modulation with no problem at 10 feet. It still glitches at 4 feet.. but I was glitching too at that distance.. too close to that mean spark !)  ,I also fixed my old Theremin.. it had a blown JFET in the volume atenna circuit.. bad mix of antenna, high impedence input and proximity to lots of high voltage toys.

(wow.. that was nerdy)

Spent a good hur sleeping by the wood stove with the dogs…    then later tonight, Gabe and I headed over to Chris and Kim’s for the delayed Solstice burn. Chris showed us his new angler fish mailbox.. wow !

Chris had taken two of the wooden candles he’d made for the solstice and made them into the coolest looking robot .. complete with blinking eyes and a copper heart

 

 

there was a short fire dancing show… 

 

My contribution was the ‘splitter’ (ferro-titanium filings) that make the pretty sparks you can see here. 

 

Chris lit the robot using a rope dart

 

If you look carefully, you can see the robot’s copper heart glowing red here.. the camera saw it.. but you couldn’t see it with your eyes.. pretty cool

now home and about to head to sleep.. I needed a day like this

nite all, nite sam

-me