Starting new shoe cubbies

I have a great helper!

Mary at The Foundary Makerspace showed me a spectrum of robots that want homes. These are all programmable robots, and some are tablet controlled. Contact Mary Keene through The Foundary’s website or Mary’s Facebook page.

We’ll start with the classroom robot kit made for programming with SolidWorks. It has a programming book as well.

Next is the Bioloid. This is apparently a tournament soccer robot very popular in South Korea.. You control it and program it with a tablet. Programming can be very advanced.

The last one is a faithful Lego NXT kit. This looks like a first generation, but these still work well.

Old Shingles and House Painting

One of the calls. I got from the painting contractor was about my cedar shingle siding on my upper story. It was not in terrible shape, but the shingles were brittle. Too brittle to scrape even though they were not bowed. (Bowed shingles being a sign of expiration.)

Next paint job, or probably sooner, it will be time to replace those with hardiboard.

Rain barrels installed

And I added screen to the overflows. I wonder how the winter will treat them.

Happy People at LinuxFest Northwest 2015

I only had about 45 minutes to take a few pictures (and grab a beer) at LFNW after party. Other years I’ve had more time, more pictures. This is what I got.