Had a productive day at work, then walked over to the Airport to meet DIane (An advantage of workign next to the airport !)

Tonight we’re heading out to Portland to see Gabe for Thanksgiving. I’ll be workign out there for the reast of the week and part of next week.

Traveling like this is a real benefit of semi retirement !

More from out there !
nite all, nite sam
-me 

Today  we were going to have a Board meeting of one of the three orgs I serve as a board member.. I realized that I take these roles on in the hopes of helping out. on casues I support.. . but quickly find I’m ill suited to board work. I find I don’t particularly like organizing things.. though I absolutely believe in the need of boards who are organized. I also really don’t like the financial parts  that boards have to do..eg budgets and fund raising / developement .   That often leaves me at best bored .. at worst  it makes me at odds with other board members who are really tryign to do the neccessary work to make these orginaztions effective.   In contrast, one of those Boards is actually about building printed circuit boards. . which is something I LOVE doing !!!!..

I think I need toe xtricate myselfe from the organizational parts and stick to making things..
What do you think  ?

 

 

Nite all, nite sam

-me

The big fun for today is that I got my 2nd revision of my Alia circuit board workign. Its part of the work I’m doing for  our Project OnBoard 

where we’re tryign to introduce 1000 hgh school kids aroudn the word to the fun of creatong Printed circuit boards. I did this as a demo of whats possible. THis board is in the shape of our Alia airplane.. it has 12 rgb leds per propeller and 8 for the tail . It doss all sorts of color patterns.. and has an inertial measurment uint that allow is to detect its pitch and roll. I have the lights reacting to that angle of the plane to demonstrate the force vectorign our plane does to keep its position in the air as it pitches and rolls. Its also a wireless device.. I hope to eventually make it into a controller for a flight simulator. .. hwo cool would that be ?!?!

 

I’ super happy  how this came out !nite all, nite sam

-me

Hmmm. what do I remember abotu Nove 12 2023 ? I remember it was a nice daya t home.. but I dont recall doing anythinbg. I usually take clues from the pictures I took on that day. Here’s all I found for the day

Guess I’m drawing a blank 🙂 

nite all, nite sam

-me