First Real Post

Last Friday morning I spent three hours deburring aluminum stock at LEMUR.  Not the most exciting work, I know, but it needed to be done.  They recently received a large commission from none other than Pat Mahoney, a world-renown guitarist and composer!  This commission includes a robotic vibraphone, marimba, and glockenspiel along with a guitarbot (LEMUR invention) two robot strummed guitars (which still need to be designed) and an assortment of auxiliary robots.  So there's a lot of work to be done at LEMUR between now and the new year.

More interesting work was going on when I stopped in Tuesday afternoon.  I'm sure you're familiar with the memory game "Simon" where you have to hit the correct colored lights in the right order over and over until you fail.  Leif had created a much larger version of the game (and I believe, much more fun).  You still have to hit the right colored buttons in the right order to keep going, but instead of lights and beeps to remember, flame-throwers shoot up from four large cannons!  And the best part?  The player stands in the middle of these four huge flame-throwers!

I didn't know what was going on when I first came in.  Leif just asked me to replace the valves on the flame-thrower holding tanks with quarter turns.  I thought this must be part of some paramilitary operation.  I suppose it is, in a way.  More along the lines of an artistic and cultural revolution than a social or political one.