diane cleaned out the fountai today with a little bleach to kill the gunk that was grwing in there.. and even though there was no soap involved whatsover .. it foamed up.. any ideas why ?
busy day at work.. took soem tiem to walk from S40 oaver to CMC where Skuk, Clair and freinds are working on Loop. Its abotu a minute and half walk from the front door of S40… they are making amazing progress.. and they have sooooo much more to do. Hope i can help them some I
The reason I came back last night.. instead of stayign to the end of undercity.. is becuase this was the last day we could all get together and get fluffy’s passenger side clouds up and tested. The driver side clouds have been on for the last year.. and have been used at several fluffy events.. but not the pasenger side.. we havent put them up since the door to fluffy hoem for the year had a an 11 foot wide door, not wide enough for both sides to have clouds>
this has worked ok.. but the passenger side clouds have not been on and tested since fluffy was on the playa last year.. and several clouds cgot broken on the trip back to reno
We were ble to get the clouds up and blinking in less than three hours. which is fantastic givent that it used to require 8 hours (eek !)
the funny thing is , now we need to take down the clouds from both side and prepare fluffy for the trip out to the desert !.. still it was something we had to do and we were glad to get it done
one cool thing that happened today is that Skunk and Claire Delux came by to see us.. I’d met Skunk on line a year or so back. but never meet either of them face to face. They are workign on another burning man art project called Loop which is goign to be a huge human sized hamster wheel.. Its so good to meet new people doing the burning man art thing here in our same town.> I’m goign to see If I can help them a bit on their lights.. .. thoguh i’m pretty swamped between work and fluffy.. they are buildign soemthign really beitiful !
I slept on the floor last night like everybody else. I think I got 3 hours total.. which was enough. THe rest of the day was a very fun blur. Meghanna and I doeld out parts for anyone who needed them.. and I di lots of circuit consulting.t. there were folks there with every ability and experience .. from those who were absolutely new to hardware design to high schoolers that were much better at it than I am..
I had a great tiem trying to map my mind and advice to all the differnt skill levels and the varieus projects they were tryign to do
I got to stay unitl about 7PM.. when I had to head to the airport for my overnight flight back to BTV>. I got to help alex teach a class on surface mount soldering before I left.. which was fun since i’m kindoa new to it myself
I was there long enough to be able to see soem of the projects people were making.. and they were amazing !
One additional treat was getting to ride in a driverless waymo.. the futre is behind us 🙂
so glad I made this trip !
note all. niote sam -me
ps. I took a redeye home.. and wouldnt you know it.. the seat I booked was brokeen and could recline.. I didnt get much sleep 🙁
Started the day in my funky but nice airbnb,,, then walked to Github HQ who was hosting our Undercity hackaton
Undercity is a 54 (?) hour hackathon which is the colmination of the Highway hardware campaign from my friends at Hackclub. My friends Alex and Acon are the master minds behind the event. We’re being hosted by Github in their beutiful HQ in San Fran. THere are 136 high school stundents here from all over the world.. at hack clubs expense. Their goal is to make soemthing amazing in the 2 and a half days they here hours they have..
I am so excited to be here. Its already been such a well run event. The Github dfolks have been great and the event volunteers are super fun.
I spent the morning helping set up. Meghanna and I were the ‘quartermasters’.. we sorted abd organized the zillion bits of hardware that teh hackclubbers could use in their projects..
