Tonday was a busy build day at work. Not much I can report here. We had a face-to-face generator board meeting in the afternoon… I’m approaching my 10th year on the board and I’m really happy what generator has achieved and all that time. Next year I’ll have to step off of the board because of term limits…. Honestly I’m not really cut out for board meetings. A lot of the conversation is about money and fundraising which I know is essential but I don’t have much skill in that. Anyway… have a great deal of admiration for my fellow board members. We have such a great mix of skills there… HR people, entrepreneurs, marketing people, lawyers, accountants, and a whole ton of makers. On that… I had voiced some concern as w added new members to the board to replace the outgoing ones that we try to get more makers an artist involved. At that Meg, our leader… Asked all of the board members who considered themselves makers and or artist to raise their hands… I was so impressed about how many people had those skills…I think we’re in good hands!

As always the case after a board meetings we went over to zero gravity to get a beer (NA in my case) .. One of the folks working there was Gabe’s friend Josh… I love our small town where you can run into people wherever you go

nite all, nite sam

-me

Today was really fun .. We hosted a team from Spaulding high school in Barre for a project called BETALabs that my friends Tyler and Shannon are leading. The Teacher from Spaulding is my old freind Michelle LaFrancis (aka Lafran).. She’s the School to work coordinator at Spaulding and such a great advocate for her students. The idea of BETAlabs is to get teams of kids to take an open ended problem and implement a solution using the resources at Generator Makerspace and BETA . We’d collectively picked a pretty sophisticated project. It was the design and creation of a motor demonstrator that showed the relation between current and torque. The students had to design the physical components and cut them out with laser and print them on a 3-D printer. My awesome coworker Shannon helped them do all that fabrication.  Then they had to design the electronics including the windings and battery power and switches to energize the coil. Finally they assembled the whole thing with scale to measure the torque. They have several weeks to do this including two visits to generator and two visits to beta. 

I can’t wait to see how it comes out !

Nite all, nite sam

-me

Diane picked me up at the airport yesterday afternoon after coming back from Endicott.. We came home , had a quite night.. and spent today just workign around the house, running and basically relaxing..

ahhhhhhhhh !

nite all, nite sam

-me

Woke up this morning early and headed to the Atlanta Airport. I got there in time to watch the tail end of the coronation of King Charles III. Diane and I used to  live in the UK (84-86) .. so I still have a soft spot in my heart for the people and culture of England… That said, it was weird to see all the pomp and circumstances around the coronation. I understand it cost  the people of the UK more than a £100M. 

As I watched the coronation in the United club. I saw that last nights main honoree, Vint Cerf.. the father of the Internet was there too. We got to talking and ending up spending a couple of hours together.  We were on the same plane.. and we were sitting in adjacent seats. What a. treat. Vint is a very funny and very well traveled  guy. It was great getting to know each other. It turns out that we have many things in common including that we both have great wives and that we are both in IMDB as part of our appearing in made for TV entertainment. MIne is for appearing on The Colony.   Vint’s IMDB references is for  Earth: Final  Conflict VInt was a friend of Gene Rodenberry (star trek creator. and appeared in several episodes. I found him in the beginning here .

Vint has a wonderful trove of stories about people in tech. travel. wine and kids.e’s a very kind and brilliant guy.. .. and he has a Ronald McDonald watch to boot !  

It was a pleasure to get to spend this much time with him . I hope our paths cross again soon !

nite all, nite sam

-me