Tonight was the annual Engineering Night at the University of Vermont. All the seniors were there showing off their end of year capstone projects. It was magnificent !

Gabe spent a few minutes lookign around with me util he had to run off and take a test… Heres  a project some of his friends did.. very cool way to help train nordic skiers.. they created instrumented ski polls.  they embedded strain gauges in both poles. and fed those into a n arduino with wireless link in each handle.. they would then measure the stress on both poles and report if the skier was favoring one side or another.. The skier got an audible clue in her/his ear to tell them that they were favoring one side

heres friend Paulos mars lander.. they are entering this thing in a completion .. looked pretty impressive !

my overall favorite was the electric tractor done by my friend Caitlin and friends. They took an 194-‘s tractor and retrofit it to electric drive. it was really amazing. a clean an beautiful build !

Great display of creativity and design.. made me proud to be an engineer

but hey.. I’m always proud to be an engineer !

nite all. nite sam

-me