(December 9)
Bears Seen: Still just 2
Hello everyone, I’ve decided you deserve another update. Not
a lot has gone on since my last post. Thanksgiving was awesome here in Alaska. I was invited to a coworker's house where we forsook the traditional holiday bird in favor of Moose, King Crab, and two types of Salmon! It was delicious, and I came home with leftovers.
I went to a progressive Christmas party
this weekend (where you move from house to house for appetizers, dinner, and
dessert) which was a lot of fun!
BEAR FACT: Polar
bears have little to no holiday spirit. They would rather consume you than the bottle
of Coke you have in your hand. Please do not anthropomorphize the bears.
At work I’ve gotten started on my ROV project, which is really
exciting! These are the units the kids build, the frame is PVC pipe and the
motors are three amp DC bilge pump motors. Right now the controls are very
simple, just switches that drive a motor either forward or back. I found a
simple way to ad a dial (potentiometer) to give the motors adjustable speed. I’ll
also be making a more complicated prototype with an Arduino microcontroller
that would allow the use of sensors, a display, and a video game controller to
drive with! You know, provided I remember enough of my engineering education.
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| The best of the scenery pictures from night skating. Check out the Big Dipper in the top left! |
I’m dog sitting two huskies, they’re great dogs. We’ve gone
dog sledding twice now; it is a ton of fun! Remember the glacier from last
post? There’s a lake at the base of it that freezes over this time of year. We went
night skating there a couple weeks ago under a full moon (I borrowed a kick
sled) and this weekend I took the dogs out there. They were reluctant at first,
but once we got going we had a blast!
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| Glacier-adjacent dog sledding! |
