Busy and geeky day.. I began by finishing up the LED hoop i started last night.. I still need to tweek the software, but I think it’s going to be sweet !

 

 

Then I met Herb at the haunted forest to get Project XrPumpkin robot ready for the Williston parade tomorrow. I’m not really sure what they are trying to do. I believe they are trying to get the giant pumpkin robot to look like Trey A. from Phish.. not sure how that’s going to happen. I spent the afternoon getting the thing to run on bottled CO2 instead of a compresser.. not as easy as it sounded..

 

 

Then I headed to the north end to visit freind scott. His family is out of the country for a couple of weeks, so he’s transformed his kitchen into a chemistry lab.. Here he is with some re-preprocessed KNO3 .. looks suspicious.. but it’s relativity safe..

 

.. well.. at least it wsa safer than the rest of the stuff he has in there .. 🙂

 

 

 

 

We fired up Scotts new marx generator as well.. I’ll try to get a movie in here of it firing.. good spark off of 12 folts in.. nice !

 

Then around 7 we showed up at Echo for the Fireworks.. it was nice watching from there.. first up was the same great stunt flyer from last year.. amazing !

 

 

 

 

I got out the hoop to test on people.. Jackie was there with the other light up hoop I’d made here.. Here’s my freind Julie with the new hoop

and the old one

and here’s Jackie giveing it a spin.. I need to make it more stroby

finally it was time for fireworks. they were really amazing.. a long show tonight..

ok.. it’s very late now.. gotta sleep.. more on the 4th
nite all, nite sam
-me