{"id":1152,"date":"2007-12-17T04:23:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-17T08:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2007\/12\/17\/sunday-night-robotree\/"},"modified":"2007-12-17T04:23:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-17T08:23:00","slug":"sunday-night-robotree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2007\/12\/17\/sunday-night-robotree\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday night – robotree"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I slept for nearly 9 hours last night.. The longest I think I’ve slept in over a year. We woke up to beautiful snow.. It was a perfect day to hang out inside. Our main goal for the day was to decorate the xmas tree.  Gabe had a really cool idea.. he wanted to make the tree into a robot !.. Well.. what’s not to like in that idea.. we got right to it.. the first challenge was the arms. I got some light gauge steel rod … measured out Gabe’s arms.. and started bending. <\/div>\n

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We got a rudimentary frame put together.. then took a break. I took Gabe to the Round Church to work on a snowboard jump.. the roads were pretty messed up.<\/div>\n

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I took a quick stop at the bakery, but  it was closed because of the storm. I did get a good look at the anti-TV sculpture that Ben-the-baker’s brother Chelsea had made..   I like the message. <\/div>\n

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From there I headed over to my friend Chris’s house.Chris is an amazing stone carver, engraver and etcher.  He’s helping me with a Christmas plan  have. <\/div>\n

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Chris does a bunch of work with words and rocks.. a great combination.<\/div>\n

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He has a Sam Stone in his workshop !<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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We hung out for a few hours working on the project and talking to his very cool family. We even made a home made light bulb with his son Finn.. (My friend Uwe also has a kid named Finn.. I’d never heard that name before)  Finn had a battery kit… it had an interesting phone number… the National Battery Ingestion Hotline.. A great number to know.. Do people really eat batteries ? <\/div>\n

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I got home around 4  and got back to work on the tree. Diane did an artful aluminum foil job on the arms<\/div>\n

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I added the LED strip lights I bought in Shanghai. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Max added a head<\/div>\n

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I had to make some trips to the attic to get lights and other tree stuff. Going up there is still so hard .. <\/div>\n

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In the end.. the four of us came together and made Jonesville’s first Robo-tree.. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In fact.. Diane had just said.. “we probably have the only robotic tree in the world’ 2 seconds later Max opened the Sunday paper and saw this: <\/div>\n

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Another weird coincidence..   Anyway.. the results are pretty … uhhhh.. untraditional… You know, it’s probably easier that way. <\/div>\n

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We celebrated our successful creation with some chocolate fondue … The end of a very good day. <\/div>\n


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Ok.. the four of us are watching a movie now.. I gotta go.. More tomorrow…
G’nite all.. G’nite Sam. I know you’d love this tree.
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