September 9th

I'd intended to go to the Columbia fly-in with the guys, but Tilly had a bad night, waking us up and keeping us awake several times, so I decided that ~3 hours' flying might not be such a great idea.

Still, I went to the airport and had breakfast at the EAA hangar, then went and pulled the plane apart to move the Garmin GDL39 ADS-B receiver.  I found that the line was juuuust about long enough to put it where I wanted, but that the GPS for the ADS-B transponder was in the way.  That had much more wire on it, so I pulled that out, installed the GDL39, then installed the GPS receiver.  At first glance everything seems fine.  I had wanted to replace the grip on my throttle unit, but that means rewiring and I'd forgotten my forceps to hold things, so I called it a day there and put everything back together and went home.

I met Shane at the house (rather than have him drive all the way out to the airport) and we tinkered around with the 3D print stuff for his helmet.  I like to think we're making progress, and we played with Fusion 360, a more complex 3D modelling software than I've been playing with (TinkerCAD.)

September 5th

I sat and thought about the bracket I printed yesterday and decided it should be at 90 degrees to how I've printed it.  So I redesigned it, thinner, and more like I think it needs to be.  This is a little annoying, as it's not my favoured solution (moving the receiver to a different place) but I don't want to open everything up and find I can't move it, then have to put it back together as it is now so I can work out a bracket.  Still, all ready now - I just need the time and energy to go out and install it.

September 4th

Today was Labo(u)r Day, when Americans celebrate the successes of the union movement by going shopping.

I started the day playing around with the 3D printer - I designed my first 3D thing, a bracket to hold up the ADS-B receiver in the plane, then spent ages watching it print.  It's probably a ways thicker than it needs to be, but it should work.

September 3rd

The forecast for today was terrible, so we'd agreed to drive to lunch to meet up.  Of course, it wasn't all that bad, but we'd all set out by that point.  Still, I went and met Chris, Perry, Randy and Shane for lunch.

September 2nd

Dave and Sam came up to see Tilly and to drop off some Lift for me, then we went to lunch before they headed out to a murder mystery thing in Sacramento.

After that, Shane came over to see Tilly and discuss a couple of 3D printing things for the Team Wendy helmets that we use in the gyros.

September 1st

A new month, so here are the solar stats:

Power billed

Power generated

August 31st

Chris mailed to say Rock Monsterz was playing at Cameron Park, so we drove over there after work to watch their practice session.  I'm still humming Kashmir.