This week I bought our final Saturday evening ice cream treats from Izzy’s ice cream store just down the road from where we live. Covid-19, and the uncertainties it’s bringing, gate-crashed the business model; the store is closing. Ice cream in a time of Covid. The server slides my online order through the freezer case…… Continue reading Izzy’s Ice Cream
Category: Living
Reasoning through Language Arts
It’s Friday. Fridays and Mondays my GED student and I Reason Through Language Arts, layered on ESL.
Lake Harriet Pit Stop
Our Wednesday tradition: cycle to the Chain of Lakes, stop at Lake Harriet for a breakfast sandwich and coffee, continue along the Minnehaha Creek, then up the Mississippi to home.
Casket Arts
It’s Tuesday, so cycled with a friend in search of things we’ve never seen before. The grounds of the Casket Arts Community are always a good bet. This is a base for over 140 artists and art businesses. In 1882 the Northwestern Casket Company made caskets.
Rebuilding
Cycled through an area where the community is lifting itself up from the destruction during the riots in May.
Floating
Sunday afternoon, recumbent on a sofa, a novel, a nap, under a silent speaker floating on the ceiling.
LEGO Teardown
Posted LEGO Mindstorms Warehouse Picker: Teardown.
LEGO Mindstorms Warehouse Picker: Teardown
https://youtu.be/vsbbJ0vttZU Teardown The four modules stack on top of each other. Modules Up-down motor module. Rack and pinion, one servo motor, one touch sensor. Forward-backward motor module. Two linear actuators, one servo motor, one touch sensor. Left-right motor module. Rack and pinion, one servo motor, one touch sensor. EV3 computer brick. I wrote the program…… Continue reading LEGO Mindstorms Warehouse Picker: Teardown
Warehouse Picker
Posted LEGO Mindstorms Warehouse Picker. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vsbbJ0vttZU&feature=youtu.be
Bicycle-Friendly Road Markings
Cycled past city workers who were busy refreshing bicycle-friendly road surface markings.