Nachos are a collection of things that, frankly, are way better than the sum of their parts. Much like wins for the week - on their own the wins are good but together? Much better. So let’s build some win nachos? (Can you tell I am writing this while eating dinner… which happens to be some very good tofu nachos?)
My win - finally got in to see the doctor for some issues that are more annoying than anything else. Not what I thought they were but still can be sorted out fairly easily so that’ll be nice.
Finally got to bring a robotic arm I had in my basement to the shop, seems like theres enough interest for us to work on it as a project of some sort, thanks Livonia Warriors!
Got most of the major stuff done for my most recent heavyweight designs horizontal configuration, just found out I didn’t put the pulley interfacing geometry in for the weapon shaft.
Our church organist had some parts to repair, but they aren’t available, so I volunteered to try 3d printing one. I was about 80% there on the first print, just have to figure out how to keep the 1/8" hole. Here is the broken part, the organ is pretty old
Bonus: My friend brought up my late advisor which was nice to remember, and also was putting her favorite textbooks in her office which reminded me of our chemical kinetics book author and their interest in modeling Cobra venom.
The prototype of the Sparkmax mount/guard that one of our new students designed turned out great (betting all our FIRST points on a Stratasys 3D printer turned out to be a good move)
Moved in, but not fully unpacked, at my new place (fast move after mold discovery… not fun during first week of school)
Got to eat dinner with a group of friends for one of their birthday’s. And see his parents and family who I haven’t seen in probably 20 years.
Was told that if I get some paperwork filed correctly (after the third attempt) I should be able to get some CTE funds this semester (Makera Carvera? )
We had a robotics info meeting at lunch and about 20 9th graders showed up. Still have Club Rush coming up.
We are all moved in to our new space! We moved from a old warehouse to a nice building that has A/C and a lobby! It has meeting areas and classrooms and is a huge upgrade. Now we are just need to knock down multiple walls to build the field.
Football team got our first win! Unsurprisingly our schedule was really tough, playing some of the best teams in the league, but now we’ve drastically improved and have an easy schedule!
Got back my 6mo hormone replacement and yearly blood tests, and everything is looking good, with the best news being I am no longer pre-diabetic. My A1C dropped to 5.3! So I just need to keep up the weight loss and lifestyle changes!
Disassembled, cleaned, and inspected the swerves that came off our practice bot. They were pretty beat up! Nothing fatal. Have a few changes for next year. Overall, pretty happy.
Cooked 72 Italian Sausages, 5 10 cans of tomatoes into Marinara, and 10 pounds of spaghetti Friday for the most successful church dinner in terms of meals sold and funds raised (excluding Lenten Fish Fries) since lock down. Only 8 sausages at the end, and we served at least 2 vegetarian plates. Best fellowship is disputed, but clearly on the short list.
And we found someone new to cook for November, so I don’t have to do four main dishes in a row! (Pulled smoked pork sandwiches in October, Gumbo in November, Beef Stew in December).
And yes, I found my OTHER Hawaiian shirt with a pocket and wore the golden protector Friday, half a day at work, the rest of the day at the dinner. [See last week for context.]
I’ve also returned to playing MATLAB Cody (a MATLAB variant of code golf) pretty regularly. I focus on the hard problems, so it makes me do a bit of research into theorems as well as producing concise code.
I picked up 2 boxes of old computer magazines, I found some really cool stuff! Ranging from the 70s-90s. It’s gonna be fun just to browse through it all. My two favorites so far.
The robotics Magazine was published by The Society of Manufacturing Engineers. On the back cover is an ad for a Unimate… love it!
The Apple one is from right when Steve Jobs was removed from Apple’s Leadership and everyone thought Apple would collapse… if only they knew what we know now.
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