Saturday, August 27, 2011
Friday, August 26, 2011
Sunday, August 14, 2011
Maker Faire, 2011
The Tornado Intercept Vehicle. Larry, Marla, and Andrew. Though you cannot see it here one of the vehicle's spikes was punched into the concrete parking lot.
This is the second year that the Maker Faire has come to the Henry Ford Museum in the Dearborn/Detroit area. The fair is all about do-it-yourself building projects from the very small to the huge. While the huge projects, like the Gon Kirin fire breathing dragon or the Life Sized Mousetrap, certainly attract attention (they did for us) the smaller projects including swarms of robots and Makerbot printers to name ust two are important too. The fair is really about the spirit of creating things and the joy of experimentation and exploration. It is, of course, great fun to watch the Eppybird gentlemen fire off a display of over 100 Coke Zeros with over 600 Mentos and create geysers of foam that sway back and forth into the sky. But it is their enthusiasm for what they do that is really catching and perhaps some will try creating their own soda foam plumes later on. I joined Larry, Marla, and little Andrew Biederman and we explored what we could on the second day of the Maker Faire. We had a very fine time doing it even though we had to spend some time standing around in lines sweating in the 90+ (F) degree heat. The price for admission seems a bit steep at $28 but I would pay it again.Saturday, July 16, 2011
Friday, July 15, 2011
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
To the Islands I Go
This weekend I will join 19 other people and we will travel to GArden Island in Lake Michigan. This small island is one of several in a small Archipelago that lay just north of Beaver Island. During the trip we will explore this island and see what we can still find as it has slowly been reclaimed by Nature since the last resident died, Peter Monatou, died in the 1940s. Though it seems tempting to try to visit the other islands that lay nearby this will not be done (at least not by me). Maybe that can happen on some future expedition after all we are calling ourselves the Pirates of the Archipelago and that implies we ought to visit the other islands too.
If possible I will post some information while I am on the island and you will be able to see it if you follow follow me on Twitter. You can also track information on the following map which should become more interesting when we arrive at Fisherman's Island State Park in Charlevoix tomorrow evening. You can also learn more about trip from the Fortune Bay Expedition Team website information page here.
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