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After the most amazing Maker Faire ever, there's no rest for us! Sylvia got out there and handed out her cards to at least 30 amazing makers and booth workers, and the response has been amazing. Her show skyrocketed from 10 views to over 30k in a little over 2 weeks! I guess that means we're vested! Now if only I was properly employed to support these all video shenanigans...

Last Tuesday morning I was a bit busy.. having my third (and final) beautiful little girl!

Nearly a full 9 years ago, my darling sprout Sylvia embarked on a journey to find herself. 8 years and 7 months later, she's still looking, but just between you and me, I think she's got a good start. If not, at least I think she's pointed in the right direction.

All yesterday (about 14 hours) I was PA on set of for the trailer of the new movie Before 12. Just installed the XDCAM EX browser, and the very first clip I open, I nearly fall on the floor laughing. Lets see if you can spot it...

Imagine for a moment, if you will, that you are a painter. A fairly skilled painter in your craft, not the best, but good enough to get by in almost every situation.

Was browsing some family photos.. and suddenly noticed a picture of my son when he was 1 year old. Wow. Dead ringer.

"The SS Philly comin' in to port!"

Not that anyone should give a flying terd at this point, I took an hour, and a little spit and chewing gum, and mangled together a quick wiki project site for µCAI!

http://ucai.tn42.com

Right now, it's just my notes for how it could work, but I'll be padding out the pages to get the basics down, shorten the main page, and then sending the link off to some smart people on twitter to see if anyone is interested.

Ok, so.. maybe I'm crazy but... ever since my initial foray into Micro-controllers, so little emphasis is kept on the actual building when it comes to "moving" bots. On the beloved arduino, all it takes is a single open source shield (or less) to start making a chassis move, and right out of the box you can receive and measure various sensors and inputs.

One full month now of unemployment after nearly a decade. And how's it going? Well...