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Good morning, earthlings. Beginning my 2nd TWO DAY weekend in row, & I feel almost human, almost hopeful that live could be “normal” whatever that means. Going to breakfast with an old internet friend from the Mac News Network days — 2002-2004 or so. The Lounge there was my online home for a few years & I still have real friends from there. The internet is weird, no? Ok, coffee.

Chris Vreeland @Devils_Rancher

@DistroJunkie I need to do that some time! I sorely miss going to the kids robotics meets, just because of the novelty of the designs.

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They defiitely had many kids with bots there. There were even a few adult "kids" there as well. There was a computer made entirely with relays called Rec3. They had rockets, CNC machines and their byproducts. There was a couple who copperplated things with a homebrew plating setup. Lots of RaspberryPis, drones, and many arts & crafts things also. My son wants to homebrew his own drone now.

@DistroJunkie Building a drone sounds hard but awesome. They got a CNC machine at the robotics lab at LASA the year before Erin graduated & she was pretty stoked to be able fab parts. FIRST Robotics was the #1 factor in her deciding on an E.E. trajectory. I can’t recommend it enough if you’ve got school age kids.