Fun day working on projects.. cant show them here yet.. but I will be able to later.

Tonight I met Alencia and her gf ALice at Sakura’s .. I told them about how long we’ve been coming to sakura.. Sure ’nuff there ‘s an overgrown samstone thats been in one of their plants for at least 10 years

Great  catching up with them. Alice is workign at baker while she’s home from college. she made us this beutiful and very tasty loaf of bread

yum !

 

nite all. nite sam 
-me

I deceided to wear a new shirt today and realizzed it was great camo. I could blend in with our down comforter.. 

Where’s John ?!?

Today I did some cross organizational work to help a team tht was short handed. There I ran into my friend Don who’s newly at BETA He was wering a Beeken NY shirt.. so we got to talkign about the area. He told me what he’d done in ahis past life (BETA folks come from all sorts of previous gigs). He told me he worked on solid state refrigeration.. and in 2 hops we realized he used to work for y very good freind and mentor Kevin C.. super small world

 

Later tonight I was doing some repair work on a demo I buit for work abotu 4 years ago.. yuck what a mess. 

its fun to realize how much better i’ve gotten at this stuff by working at BETA

 

Nite all, nite sam
-me

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