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The fruit of arroganceApril 02,2014
Vermonts state Board of Education has voted to endorse the elimination of local town school boards in favor of consolidated, expanded districts. The boards resolution contends that the plan recently approved by the House Education Committee will modernize Vermonts educational governance system in order to provide all Vermont students with an equitable opportunity to prosper and thrive in all Vermont schools.
Welcome to the world of education platitudes that bear no resemblance to reality and that every day obstruct actually teaching Vermonts students in Vermonts actual schools. The theory of education-speak is that if you sprinkle your bad ideas with words like modernize, equitable, prosper, and thrive, no one will dare disagree with you, and everyone who only casually listens will think you must be right.
By that definition of modernize, Vladimir Putin is modernizing Ukraine. And Im sure Kim Jong Un would tell you he just wants his people to prosper and thrive.
Dont misunderstand. Im not equating our representatives in Montpelier with those tyrants. But Im tired of empty rhetoric masking decisions that every day impede efforts to improve our schools by the people who are actually in our schools. Im tired of leaders who mouth and swallow empty words.
Consolidated school districts, for example, in no way promote equity. If by equity, you mean how much money each school has available to spend, then make some reasonable changes in the way we fund schools. Increasing the distance of the governing body from the school it governs has nothing to do with equity. It will increase administrative costs, which even supporters of consolidation now concede. It will also allow even more of educations bandwagon snake oil miracles to be forced down the throats of local schools and communities that dont want them.
Consolidating districts will in no way optimize learning. It wont eliminate layers of bureaucracy, but will instead add layers of bureaucrats farther away from the schools theyre supposed to be governing. Consolidated schools are in no way better positioned to deliver 21st century skills. As for being innovative, innovation and improvement arent synonyms. Innovation, which means making things new, is good only when it also makes things better.
Eliminating local boards means eliminating the power of local citizens to govern the schools their children attend. If thats a step in the right direction, if that advances the ability of the public to govern its public schools, Id like someone to explain how. It will also lead to closing local schools without the consent of the communities that built them and filled them with children.
Further distancing the governance of our schools from the classrooms and corridors where education happens wont improve education. The embarrassingly unimpressive record of our state education bureaucracy in promoting and enforcing the long series of ill-conceived reforms they incessantly bill as education change, restructuring, and transformation, from portfolios to the current Common Core mandate, ought to be all the evidence anyone needs.
Supporters of the consolidation bill point to provisions that establish advisory committees that could offer their opinions to their towns representative on the expanded board. These advisory committees, however, would have no power to make any decisions.
Im familiar with how consulting and working with stakeholders plays out in education. Ive been on committees like that. Its a brilliant tactic. The people who have no power, in this case the citizens who used to elect their local school boards and whose schools were talking about, get to say what they think. Then the people who do have power, meaning the new, distant, expanded board members get to choose between two options. If they happen to agree with the advice, they can say they heeded the voice of the people. If they disagree, they get to ignore what they hear, proceed on the path they originally intended, but still say everyone was at the table and that their decision was based on the input of the people they ignored.
Its no surprise that the state board endorsed a proposal to consolidate the power to run our schools further away from the people whose schools they are. After all, thats precisely what the state Board of Education is. In fact, the actions of the unelected state board in this case, as in other past cases, are a perfect example of why distant boards, only marginally connected to the people they purport to represent, typically dont promote anybodys thriving or prospering, and why we need to oppose and reject any effort to rob local citizens and parents of the power to control the schools where their children spend their days.
If our representatives in Montpelier elect to usurp our authority over our own schools, we should remember that the next time its our turn to elect them.
The bill as written allows towns to decide to consolidate, unless they dont want to consolidate, in which case they will be forced to consolidate by a state design team. Has that duplicitous sham become Vermonts new standard of democracy and equity? Is that what now passes for government by consent of the governed?
Heres a proposal. Let each town vote to decide whether or not it wants to disband its local board and consolidate with another town or towns. In other words, let the power to decide be more than a hypocritical pretense.
If the Legislature and governor enact the bill as written and refuse to allow us to decide how we want to govern our schools, let every select board and school board vote to instruct their town treasurers to withhold the state portion of the revenue they collect. Then our representatives in Montpelier can decide which of us they want to arrest.
I realize thats a radical suggestion, and most likely illegal, but its no more radical and ought to be no more illegal than wresting control of our community schools from the communities and parents whose children attend them.
I am no radical. But defiance and outrage are the fruit of the governmental arrogance that appears to be coming our way.
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Juliette Commagere Announces New Album Human
Los Angeles based singer/songwriter Juliette Commagere has announced on her official website her third and forthcoming album Human is currently in the works. A free download of the song "What We Get" is able below.
The former vocalist and keytar player in Hello Stranger appeared on Puscifer's 2010 release Conditions Of My Parole, which she had previously appeared on their 2007 "V" Is For Vagina debut album. Her last single and video was "Impact" from her 2010 release The Procession.
Her music had previously appeared on televisions shows such as Private Practice, Emily Owen's M.D., Drop Dead Diva, Femme Fatales, The Power of Two, Good Dick, and All The Boys Love Mandy Lane.
She posted this statement on http://juliettecommagere.net:
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"Hello everyone and Happy New Year! I hope it's been off to a wonderful start. I had a bit of a rocky start myself with a couple of oh god please kill me now hangovers, but now I've turned over a new leaf and have been on a macrobiotic diet for one and a half days, so we'll see how long this lasts. I love to make lists and am all about New Years resolutions and reflecting on the past year, and for so long I felt like I was getting nothing done with the year just flying by, but after some reflection I realize it has actually been a great and very productive year.
Joachim [Cooder] and I moved into a new house in the Mt. Washington area of Los Angeles–which has kept me very busy trying to rid it of the weird juju of the past tenants, I have a new record called "Human" almost ready to go (I was toying with calling it "I dreamed my Genesis" after the Dylan Thomas poem but Human goes better with the cover idea) , and Joachim and I produced a record for a new artist who just signed to Vanguard Records, Carly Ritter. I have to give myself a pat on the back for that one and say the record is phenomenal! After my last tour I came home exhausted and broke, and my shrink/shaman/psychic healer thought a break might be good for me. So a couple months turned into a few more than just a couple–but who's counting. Then I slowly began writing songs for my new record. The first place I went to clear my head was Jerome, AZ where my friend Maynard [James Keenan] let me stay on his vineyard. It's not far from Sedona and was the perfect place to be alone and let the ideas come. Jerome is 5000 feet above sea level and situated on the side of a cliff. The township is all these little Victorian houses literally hanging off the edge of the cliff, and at the end of the town there is a ghost town, and who doesn't love a good ghost town.
From that vantage point you can see the whole desert–to Sedona and further. Imagining being up there in the 1800s you are are so completely alone. If you get gangrene or are giving birth, there is no one to depend on but the people around you. I highly recommend a trip there. There really is something about the desert–I definitely think I'm a desert girl as opposed to a mountain or a beach girl. Unless of course it's a cold gray beach with no one on it and a storm is coming. And then I'm all over it. I went into this record with the idea that it would be a minimalist me (which I suppose is an oxymoron) and of course that's not what happened, but I still think it somehow affected the overall sound. One song "Rebel" was already featured in the CW show Emily Owens MD. But I use the word featured lightly since it was almost inaudible. But I am not complaining!!! Not at all! Thank you Emily Owens!!! I'm shooting for a springtime release but please help yourself to the free download of "What We Get" on this website.
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The US government has said it will resume medical flights for critically injured Haitians to be treated in the US, days after it suspended medical evacuations from the earthquake-devastated country.
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The US military had brought hundreds of critically injured Haitians to the US aboard its planes – most to Florida hospitals – before halting the flights on Wednesday amid a dispute over where they should be hospitalised and who should pay the costs.
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The World Food Programme (WFP) set up 16 new distribution sites where long lines snaked through the city centre at the designated women-only aid stations.
Each woman with a numbered coupon given by relief workers is allowed to collect one 25-kilogramme bag of rice from the distribution points, overseen by hundreds of US troops.
Al Jazeera's Monica Villamizar reporting from Port-au-Prince says it is too early to say if the new system will work but the separation of men and women at distribution points appears to be a positive move.
Our correspondent said many women were saying they were happy to collect food and felt safer with the more systematic and orderly approach to food distribution.
The WFP and other relief groups have been struggling with huge logistical problems to feed survivors in the earthquake-shattered city, seeking to prevent hungry survivors' anger over aid delays from erupting into violence.
In some cases, UN troops have used tear gas and Mace spray and fired warning shots to try to restore order, but without proper control, aid workers say children, the sick and elderly often miss out on getting the help they need.
Jacques Montouroy, a spokesman and logistics coordinator for the Catholic Relief Services aid group, said about 1,650 bags of rice were handed out without incident from the back of trucks.
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text: British Grand Prix Qualifying: Hamilton storms to pole on home soil 29 June, 2013 Lewis Hamilton claimed pole position for his home grand prix Lewis Hamilton declared before the British Grand Prix weekend that his head was in a better space, and duly proved it by storming to pole position for his home race at Silverstone, as Mercedes annexed the front row with Nico Rosberg second fastest. In fact the smart money would have been on Rosberg doing the business in qualifying as he appeared to have the edge over Hamilton during the the free practice sessions. Hamilton even went as far as to admit that he was struggling to find the comfort zone in the cockpit. But when it mattered Hamilton dug deep, perhaps inspired by the partisan crowd urging him on, to snatch pole with his final lap after Rosberg had knocked him off the top perch, albeit briefly. The only other time Hamilton started from pole on home soil was in his rookie year, in 2007 when he started from top spot for McLaren At the time it was only his 3rd Formula 1 career pole, this time around it was his 28th top spot start. Mercedes, with their W04, have the quickest car over a single lap or on short runs and this has been the case since for a number of races now. However their race pace and ability to nurture tyres has let them down. A sure sign of a step forward for the Silver Arrows will be their ability now to translate an all silver front row start to one-two on the podium. Lewis Hamilton celebrates after claiming pole position for the British GP Hamilton, who was the only driver to dip below the 90 second mark. soaked up the moment, "It's an incredible feeling – it feels like [his previous Silverstone pole] 2007. The crowd have been great – such a great turnout – that was a lap for them. I hope we can do something special in the race. It's phenomenal because I haven't been feeling 100% comfortable in the car." "The support has been incredible. Big thank you – it means the world to me to be able to put it on the front row for them. This is the first year I had a car to put it where I wanted to put it." "I think it'll be tough tomorrow – we have not made huge strides in race pace, but our long-run pace has not been so far off. In Montreal we were half a second off the Red Bull and Ferrari, but here it was not as big a deficit. I'm just going to gun it tomorrow and hope for the best." Credit to Rosberg for pushing hard all the way, pole was his momentarily until his teammate snatched it by a big chunk of time. Nico Rosberg and pole sitter Lewis Hamilton in parc ferme after qualifying "It's definitely a great feeling to have the fastest car and the Mercedes team did a great job. We are confident we have improved and some of the other cars may be better than us but finishing top two can only be good for us," said Rosberg. He added, "I've got mixed emotions as I would love to have finished ahead of my team-mate. But it's a great feeling to go into the race with such a good car. Handling hasn't been the best but the car has been very quick. As a team we are doing a great job." "We are making progress with our tyre management but know that some other teams are maybe better. I hope that eventually we can do races as quickly as we have been doing qualifying." Best of the rest were the Red Bull pair with Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber ending the session third and fourth respectively, ensuring an all Red Bull second row. With a strong race pace and proven winning track record this season, they must fancy their chances of overturning the Mercedes advantage in race trim. Top three in parc ferme after qualifying Vettel said afterwards, "We will see what happens tomorrow. It is a long race. I'm honestly very happy today. I don't know if Lewis [Hamilton] found a short cut or he just found something special here – it was a phenomenal lap. It is always nice to position well in qualifying here. I am looking forward to the race tomorrow and we will see how we are with looking after tyres." Paul di Resta, another driver inspired to be on home turf, will start from fifth as Force Ibndia showed strong pace throughout the weekend which also translated into a solid qualifying performance across the road from their factory. Adrian Sutil was seventh fastest. "I think I will sleep quite well tonight," said Di Resta. "A lot of work to be done but a great result for the boys on home soil. The stands were full, the sun finally came out to play and hopefully we can score some good points tomorrow." Splitting the Force India pair, was Daniel Ricciardo who will start sixth in the Toro Rosso. The young Australian, by design or coincidence, timing his good form perfectly as he is very much in the spotlight in the wake of Webber's decision to quit F1 at the end of 2013 and in so doing making available one of the most coveted race seats in motorsport. Ricciardo's heroics on the day will not have gone unnoticed. His teammate Jean Eric Vergne, also a candidate for promotion to partner Vettel, failed to make it beyond Q2 and will start 13th. Daniel Ricciardo was impressive in the Toro Rosso "It has been looking pretty good. The first two days have gone well. It is nice to confirm the speed we have," said Ricciardo afterwards. Romain Grosjean was the quicker of the Lotus duo, setting the eighth best time with Kimi Raikkonen ninth fastest – the difference between the boys in black and gold a mere 0.007 seconds! Rounding out the top ten was Fernando Alonso in the Ferrari. Clearly the Maranello squad have not progressed with their latest development of the F138. Both drivers struggled, Felipe Massa more so than Alonso. "We were not competitive all weekend and it's not normal to see Ferrari out of Q3. We need to recover now and it was a bad Saturday. We didn't improve the car enough in the last four to five races and we ordered some new parts but they didn't do what we expected. We need to keep on working," reflected Alonso. It was also a forgettable day for two legendary British teams, as both Williams and Mclaren were woefully off the pace and never really in Q3 contention. Fernando Alonso will start from tenth Williams are celebrating their 600th race weekend, and simply do not have the car for their drivers to make the most of a momentous occasion. Pastor Maldonado and Valtteri Bottas toiled hard for the meagre reward of 16th and 17th on the grid. For McLaren the situation was almost as dire, as both drivers headed off for an early shower having failed to make it into Q3 for the second time in a two races. Jenson Button will start from 11th and Sergio Perez from 14th. Button tried to see the bright side of a bleak scenario, "It is quite surprising with the way the car felt. It was very difficult getting the tyres working correctly. It is not great but it is a little less bad, is probably the right way to say it. If we had qualified into Q3 we would probably have been P10 so it is not so bad." (GP247) British Grand Prix, Qualifying – Saturday, 29 June 2013 Pos No Driver Team Q1 Q2 Q3 Laps 1 10 Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 1:30.995 1:31.224 1:29.607 12 2 9 Nico Rosberg Mercedes 1:31.355 1:31.028 1:30.059 12 3 1 Sebastian Vettel Red Bull Racing-Renault 1:31.559 1:30.990 1:30.211 14 4 2 Mark Webber Red Bull Racing-Renault 1:31.605 1:31.002 1:30.220 15 5 14 Paul di Resta Force India-Mercedes 1:32.062 1:31.291 1:30.736 19 6 19 Daniel Ricciardo STR-Ferrari 1:32.097 1:31.182 1:30.757 20 7 15 Adrian Sutil Force India-Mercedes 1:32.002 1:31.097 1:30.908 17 8 8 Romain Grosjean Lotus-Renault 1:31.466 1:31.530 1:30.955 23 9 7 Kimi Räikkönen Lotus-Renault 1:31.400 1:31.592 1:30.962 17 10 3 Fernando Alonso Ferrari 1:32.266 1:31.387 1:30.979 16 11 5 Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 1:31.979 1:31.649 12 12 4 Felipe Massa Ferrari 1:32.241 1:31.779 15 13 18 Jean-Eric Vergne STR-Ferrari 1:32.105 1:31.785 16 14 6 Sergio Perez McLaren-Mercedes 1:31.953 1:32.082 15 15 11 Nico Hulkenberg Sauber-Ferrari 1:32.168 1:32.211 15 16 16 Pastor Maldonado Williams-Renault 1:32.512 1:32.359 18 17 17 Valtteri Bottas Williams-Renault 1:32.664 10 18 12 Esteban Gutierrez Sauber-Ferrari 1:32.666 11 19 20 Charles Pic Caterham-Renault 1:33.866 6 20 22 Jules Bianchi Marussia-Cosworth 1:34.108 8 21 21 Giedo van der Garde Caterham-Renault 1:35.481 3 22 23 Max Chilton Marussia-Cosworth 1:35.858 10 Q1 107% Time 1:37.364 Tweet Related NewsHamilton's Silverstone win was superb, but could have been betterRaikkonen should be banned say criticsFans enjoyed Alonso battle despite whinging says VettelGerman Grand Prix: Williams preview HockenheimRaikkonen fully recovered for German GPGerman Grand Prix: Renault preview HockenheimGerman Grand Prix: Marussia preview HockenheimGerman Grand Prix: Force India preview HockenheimTech Talk: Silverstone analysisWhiting: Lauda knows nothing about safety realf1fan Booooooooooooooooooooooooommm As Lewis becomes more familiar with the WO4 will the half a second gap today grow even wider. Nico has pushed Lewis to new levels in a car people said would be racing amongst the midfield. Now people do you think that comments can be about Lewis's performance or will it be about his dog ,earrings , bling , celeb status etc. AlonsoFan Waow 4 tenths quicker than anybody that was awesome from Lewis..Bravo BigRed i must say that it was a very good lap for lewis i just hope they were able to solve their race pace problems hillside since the Pirelli test, these Mercs gained so much pace! f1 fan This is the lewis we all were waiting for !! Hope they show good for the race too !! stewy33 Anything else Mercedes does this year will be tainted. The young driver test will not come fast enough as all the other teams on the grid are on the back foot waiting to do "testing" Creepy Neighbour Oh Hamilton, op you wont end up slipping back while others sweep by…Good luck tomorrow. Spartacus I suspect that the Merce was more set up for qualifying than race. 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Multiplayer console games have been a big hit this generation compared to the last. Games like Call of Duty and Halo have brought in millions of new players and plenty of cash. With so much success in multiplayer and more single-player only games getting some online component, it would appear to most that this trend is going up. According to a new report shared with Penny Arcade by video game research firm EEDAR, the opposite is actually true.
The company looked back to the beginning of this generation and analyzed every Xbox 360 and PS3 released in the United States. The results fly in the face of what most gamers see in the industry today, which is the abundance of "tacked-on" multiplayer for games that simply don't need it. The truth is that there are now actually less games with multiplayer, and the trend is seems to be continuing. Geoffrey Zatkin, the COO of EEDAR had the following comments on the report.
"You can see that in 2006, one year into the release of the Xbox 360 and the launch year of the PlayStation 3, 67% of the games had online multiplayer, 58% had offline multiplayer and 28% had no multiplayer. By 2012, you can see that only 42% have online multiplayer, a drop of 25%, 44% have offline multiplayer, a drop of 14%, and 41% have no multiplayer, a rise of 16%. So, over time, fewer and fewer high definition console games are including multiplayer as part of their core offering."
Zatkin admits that when the multiplayer component is good, it will keep people playing for quite some time. Good examples include World of Warcraft, Call of Duty, and League of Legends, which offer "superior multiplayer execution." But having any kind of multiplayer will always be pricey and is not a guaranteed way to increase sales numbers. He also adds that in some games, adding an online mode wont improve the overall product and others simply don't need it.
"I don't know that BioShock 1 or the upcoming BioShock: Infinite would be a better game for the inclusion of multiplayer. Or Batman Arkham Asylum & City, Dragon AgeI & II, God of War 3, Skyrim, Heavy Rain or Fallout 3. Or Braid. Or Limbo. There are a lot of great games whose core experience didn't include multiplayer."
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A very interesting trend is happening, and one which I hope continues. Great single-player games don't need extra bells and whistles, and the same can be said about multiplayer titles. Zatkin agrees by concluding that, "A game that gives you a great experience is what you want; if the great experience involves multiplayer, fantastic. If it doesn't – well, that can be fantastic as well."
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I spent a lot of time last summer and fall building this 62″ wide bubble display. So much time that I didn't get a chance to edit together and post an "overview" video showing the whole thing in action. Well, here is that video. If you are looking for more build details just read all my posts tagged with "Bubbledisplay". If you just want to sit back and watch the whole thing come together via videos, start watching my "BubbleDisplay" channel on YouTube At the beginning.
Bubble Display Overview Video
September 4th, 2013 — Projects
Finishing the trim pieces
October 14th, 2012 — Projects
I am finishing up the trim pieces for the bubble display. The last component is the top cover that will hide the top of the acrylic tubes (and hopefully keep bugs out of them!).
I cut the side off of a piece of 2″ PVC pipe and notched the ends to fit over/around the vertical end support and various mounting hardware. Then I used a universal metalic spray paint to give it a metalic look. Unfortunately, they didn't have "alunimum gray" as a color option in spray paint that works on plastic, so I had to go with "Satin Nickel" which has a subtle bronze/gold tint to it. I'll try it on the actual bubble display and if it doesn't match closely enough I can always use it as my plastic bonding base coat and paint over it.
I used high temp hot glue to affix bright aluminum screens into the ends of the top piece, which will hopefully minimize the incidents of insects trying to get a drink and falling into the tubes. Admittedly, this may be a bigger problem in my not terribly well sealed garage than the office building where the bubble display will live…but it doesn't hurt, and it also makes the ends of the cover look more professional.
Text on the Bubble Display
October 4th, 2012 — Projects
The text of the logo is recognizable even in water. With glycerin I think it will be even nicer looking.
I'm actually cheating by rendering text as a bitmap image and then using software to load the bitmap into the arduino. So really, this is a video that demonstrates my ability to display arbitrary graphics, not actually generate text. (But I do plan on embedding a simple font table in the arduino so that the arduino can just render generic text.)
Bubble Display Frame Trim
September 29th, 2012 — Projects
Now that I have the electro-mechanical systems working, I am focusing on finishing the trim pieces for the frame that will hide the electronics and top of the tubes.
This mostly consisted of notching a few slots in the pieces of plywood for the aluminum bottom pieces and cables to go through, and a day's worth of work with a spray gun.
I had initially planned on using bright aluminum window screen mesh in a half tube shape over the top of the upright acrylic tubes, both to keep bugs out, as well as to give a nice visual appearance. But once I tried it out, I didn't like the appearance, and couldn't think of a good way to mount the ends of the screen cleanly. I am now considering using the old standby PVC pipe (probably painted some solid color with plastic spray paint). The other option is to buy a large clear acrylic tube (square or round) and use that in the same place. This would allow people to see the tops of the tubes (perhaps too well…it's too bad McMaster doesn't sell frosted acrylic tubes…) This is my current prototype:
Bubble display fiber optic relay
September 23rd, 2012 — Projects
Because the air hose is connected to the center of each square acrylic tube, the 60 LED lights on the bubble display are mounted almost between tubes, very close to the left edge of each tube. This means that a particular LED contributes light to both it's own tube, and the one to it's left. On the far right side of the display this makes mounting the first LED easy, as it is well away from the outside aluminum support upright. However, on the far left side of the array, the hole for the LED is right up against the aluminum support upright. The LED's have a square circuit board below them that makes the entire unit wider than just the LED, and it won't fit.
I knew this would be an issue from the beginning, and had designed my way around it using a bit of fiber optics. Of course, the far left tube is slightly dimmer than the others…but then again, so is the far right tube (which only has one LED).
60 tubes working!
September 21st, 2012 — Projects
Yes, I finally have all sixty tubes mounted and working. I still need to swap out two or three of the under-performing motors, and calibrate all motors, and do a lot of cosmetic finishing work (cover pieces for the top and bottom), and some software tweaks….but it's finished enough to actually work!
22 of 60 tubes running – First scaling up problem rears it's ugly head.
September 16th, 2012 — Projects
Here is a video of 22 tubes running with water:
Now for the bad news….22 tubes actually measure 22 1/8″ wide. (apparently each tube is actually 0.00568 inches larger than 1″) This means my entire display would be 3/8″ too narrow, which just won't work with the tolerances I have designed into my tube holder. That is why I only have 22 tubes in this video….the 23rd tube was just far enough off to not fit into it's proper hole.
I fixed it by cutting the tube holder into 3 pieces and mounting them with a 1/4″ gaps between them.
I also had to space the end pieces of aluminum farther out, which meant I had to drill 4 new holes to mount the side brackets to the bottom board 1/2″ farther apart. Luckily the T-Sloted aluminum mounting system allowed me to easily move my L-Brackets up slightly to hit the new holes.
Unfortunately, I mounted the Shift MOSFET circuit boards on TOP of the screw heads holding the tube support board, so I had to take them all off to re-position the tube support board. Annoying, but not the end of the world.
So, after a bit of additional work, I now have all 60 tubes working.
Electro-Mechanical systems complete
September 15th, 2012 — Projects
All sixty RGB LED's and air pumps working under computational control. Next up, physical assembly.
Bubble Display update: 24 motors connected
September 10th, 2012 — Projects
Here is a video of the bubble display base with 24 (of 60 total) motors connected running a test pattern. Next up….lots more soldering. I'm very glad I was able to find strings of 20 RGB leds already connected!
First Light!
August 25th, 2012 — Projects
I have mounted and wired all sixty RGB LED's under the tube support shelf. These RGB LED's are in serial strings of 20 each, and I was able to connect them end-to-end, making the wiring much easier than the air pump motors! Each liquid filled tube in the bubble display will sit above one of the LED's.
These LED's are individually addressable by the Arduino that controls the entire system. In the video below I have them simply doing a simple color progression for testing.


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Landscape architects are a special breed.
All of us began our pre-career existence intrigued by our natural surroundings. As an infant, my first word was "Look."
Most of us began the elementary-school years with an inherent attraction to art, spending many class periods doodling elaborate sketches in the margins of notebooks. But our interest in art was matched only by the desire to understand how things work. So we tended to fall between the categories of artist and scientist.
Personally, I am pulled more towards science, which may explain why my second word was "Why?"
It is important to understand how the basic concepts of our natural environment work in order to incorporate and mimic them into the planned and built environment.
Landscape architects are at the forefront of shaping and protecting natural resources through the art and science of natural and built environments. In the coming decades, population growth and development will tax natural resources at an unprecedented rate.
At the top of this list is water. By the year 2030, it is estimated 47 percent of the world's population will face severe water shortages.
Forested watersheds sustain the highest-quality water sources throughout the world. In North America, the majority of municipalities rely on forested watersheds for adequate quantities of high-quality water for human use. This is especially true where populations are growing rapidly in the eastern and western United States.
A conservative estimate is that 50 to 75 percent of the U.S. population relies on undeveloped forested watersheds to produce adequate water supplies. Conversely, the growth of municipalities relies on an extensive pavement infrastructure, causing the loss of forest resources and the associated water-quality and -quantity functions.
Understanding the functions of forest hydrology–including evapo-transpiration, interception and infiltration–is critical in attempting to mitigate the detrimental effect of growth and development on water resources.
Capturing Stormwater Runoff
In mature forested watersheds, surface runoff is rarely observed. In North America, studies have estimated that on average approximately 30 percent of the incoming precipitation is intercepted by the forest canopy and never reaches the soil. This leaves the remaining precipitation to be infiltrated into the soil strata.
Stormwater infiltration is therefore the key process for water utilization by terrestrial ecosystems, of which we are a part.
Stormwater infiltration is not only the key to water storage (quantity), but also water quality. Years of studies have shown that the most effective pollutant-removal efficiencies are obtained through infiltration Best Management Practices (BMPs).
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