User:Abadapple

No real credentials, other than a curiosity (...and a 50 work requirement)

Years ago, I came across the projects of Open Source Ecology. And then a career sabbatical has given chance to take classes at the community college on Machining, Welding and Mechatronics. So, I'm taking the OSE challenge to see if I can apply what I've learned, to weld, to fabricate and to energize.

There was Black Adder episode, a guy is welding a ship. The teacher comes out and ask what he's doing up high up on the bow of the ship. The student states that he's building a ship. The teacher replies... wonderful, what's the scale of the model? The student replies, well, 1:1. The professor retorts... well that won't do, scale it down.

In my childhood, I enjoyed working with the Erector sets of my friends. My parents, well, they didn't really have the means to get me more than a pocket set of 20 some odd pieces. Today kids, they have Minecraft, Lego Mindstorm, and Arduino. Us, older kids, we'll we get to play with fire and at scale.