In some parts of the world December 26th is called Boxing Day .. When we lived in the UK I never quite understood what one was supposed to do on Boxing Day.. I seem to remember something about going and seeing your mother in law.. .Or.. is it about returning unwanted gifts in boxes ? The true meaning of the holiday came to me today as we escorted a mountain of dismantled cardboard boxes outside for recycling.

THe rest of the day passed very peacefully.. Max and I had a plan to work on the computerized camera slider we’re working on together. We started at about 2:30 this afternoon. the next time we looked up it was 7:30 at night. We made great progress. It’s so much fun working together. Max is a natural at the electronics and programing stuff.. which is pretty cool for an artist at heart. We made great progress today.. we got both a servo and stepper motor working and are comparing them as potential drives for the slider. Tomorrow we hope to tackle the mechanical parts of the drive..

While Max was programming, I made some more progress on my LED strips. I built a simple arduino shield to drive them.. They are very. very sexy.. this movie doesn’t really do them justice..

Rusty came buy and played some music.. Max chimed in on the Banjo.. sounded great ..

 

 

 

That’s it for boxing day 2011.. hope you all had a good one, too
nite all, nite sam

-me