nice quiet day.. SPent the mornign cleaning out anotehr bookself.. then starting in on the garage. Workign outside braought all sorts of people over to say hi.. our reind Elliott stopped by 

 

 

 

as did Mat and Deb. Matt’s on his way to Florence for grad school in Design. . He’ll be gone a year! I’m so proud of him !

 

later this evening   we went up to colchester to see our freinds jenn and ken. Jen, and another ken.. not this one.. and I are colaborating on a piec efor the maiker faire. 

I snuck  in some HW/SW hacking time today and wired up a BNO055 9 Degrees of Freedom (9 DOF) absolute orientation sensor to an esp2866 microcontroller. Jenn is rigging this to a simple object that you’ll spin to spin a large object thats projected into the woods  at Makerfaire .   We got pretty far today.. I can now move an object around in space and see its screen image track the  moves. Its nice because the sensor does the data fusion between it’s magnetometer, gravimeter and accelerometers. .. and out  come simple Euler angles.. very nice.. 

 

I got the thing wired u.. then we went out to Colcheser  to meet them for dinner. They have SUCH a cool house.. they’r eyard is like a museum: 

 

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we fioanlly got around to porting my example to Jenns WIndows 10 compter after 10 pm.. we were all pretty sleep, but we manged to get everything working !

 

then it was 11pm and time to go

 

glad we’re home. I  need to sleep !

 

nite all. nite sam 

-me

SO nice to be home again. got hoem early and floated in the pool with DIane.. there we hatched our master plan for dinner. Zucchini patties !> You only ned to make them once a year.. but they are so good. they’re like the antipodal latke.. 

another fine way to turn our garden harvest into high fat, yummy food..

 

 

now.. what to do wiht all these tomatoes ?!?!

 

nite all, nite sam

-me

 

Greetings from Apartment 4 in the heart of chinatown. I’m trying an airbnb I may use while down in the city. It’s not bad.. but not close enough to work I think 

 

I had an interesting day.. lots of new things ot process. I did manage to eat both breakfast and lunch on the same bench in Kendal square. I met my good friend Rene for Breakfast there.. It was great catching up with  her.. about family, IBM friends, politics, careers, etc. .. 

this square  is kinda cool too 

then at lunch time I found myself on that same bench  eating a salad  from Chipotle. I guess this is my park bench now !

later this evening I met my friends Milan and Henry for dinner

we talked about their cool new AI project.   I think they’re on to something very cool !

,. it’s nice to have them in the area too. Henry is one of my only links back to college I have in the north east 

 

ok.. time for sleep. 

nite all. nite sam

-me

started the day with a foggy run on  the river

Had a really good day at MIT today.. Went and saw some very interesting people at the   Media Lab.. I used ot work there when it was called the Architecture Machine group back in 1979 !  I talked to Areal E abotu the new program they have for designing for Space.. so amazing  !

Also got to see lots of cool art pieces  like these addressable pinboards

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later this evening saw my old friend Lars at Artists Asylem where he now works. Hadn’t been to AA in a couple of years.. lots of amazing peopl elots  of amazing projects 

 

got lost on the way back to the hotel and had to climb up a spooky highway escape ramp to get back on the road I needed.. 

RIght out of Murakami’s 1Q84 !

ok.. gtta sleep now. more tomorrow

nite all, nite sam

-me