I got this picture from a photo shoot from last night.

I’ve been quiet here lately. Partly because I’m organizing my Web presence and a few other things.

Things are starting to gel so I wanted to share my new blog entitled InventorArtist.

And of course I’m busy with model airplanes.

In a nutshell I’ve moved out of ArtEngine which was helping me quite a bit. When they had the carpets cleaned they asked me to move my stuff.  That moved me from a project mode to a logistic mode as I needed to book my friends sport utility to carry the 3d printer. So I lost a bunch of hours of work. That gave me a bad feeling because I realized that this sort of discontinuity and time loss wasn’t really good timing. At the moment the 3d printer and all the rest of the projects are stored.

This sounds bad but there is a great silver lining.

The model plane project has gotten most of my attention and it has flourished. Lots of cool happenings and it has become very busy with process changes to accommodate more volume. I mean MORE VOLUME. Also more diversity.

On the bad side, the propeller project for the model planes is on hold since the 3d printer had to go to storage since all the new activity sort of displaced it. I’m not too panicky about that as I’ll get that back running soon.

Also all the new projects, robotics, arduinos, and other tinkering and experiments for the new projects has been on hold. The stuff is all piled in the closet. To be frank I’m feeling rather discouraged about all that stuff as I know that the next phase has to be some ugly logistics to get everything back to a work space.

Or just wait it out since the model plane stuff  may reach a point where there will a break as I’ll be waiting for suppliers. That might be the better angle as I’m not feeling all warm and fuzzy about trucking it all back to ArtEngine as I could find myself running around if there’s more discontinuity. When I was moving the stuff out I was feeling a little sore as it seemed no ideas came forward of a place to stash my stuff in the building during the carpet cleaning. I figured I may as well move it to the model plane lab but I could not have predicted that the model plane project would explode (there was a bit of a chain reaction after the last CBC interview).

I was just looking at the Web site traffic and noticed that when I stopped working on all projects the Web site traffic dropped as well. That’s an interesting correlation. I noticed that it jumped up when I started art projects and has been rising since.

Anyway, no need to panic. I have some stuff coming down the pipe. I’m reorganizing all my Web stuff, this site will actually get re-purposed and the content will be moved somewhere else.

The model plane stuff has become quite demanding but I’m coming to a point where all the stuff will be caught up. So I’ll be back at this again.

I use it a lot for my model plane stuff so to maintain continuity I got the Cannon gx1.

I found some Open Workshop posters in the recycle and made some paper planes. I guess it’s the new “Open Workshop Plane”.

I was amazed by these 3D Origami objects on the counter!

I’m interested in the personality and thinking flaws that lead to these sorts of claims and how people can argue something without proving it to themselves or others. Some of them are like Dave and they simply never make the machine so the idea is never tested. I noticed these types are highly prone to go into some sort of rant or rage if you challenge them. They tend to try to disprove your credibility rather than prove their own claim.

During the discussion with Dave one of the guys mentioned Thane Heins since he was local to Ottawa. I saw quite a bit of stuff around the internet on his “Perepiteia” machine. I was able to find him in online so I messaged him to invite him to demonstrate his machine. It’s been about 3 weeks ago and he’s not responded yet. After a couple of weeks I cut the online connection since it was pretty clear he won’t demonstrate.

Another common feature I’ve noticed in many perpetual motion claimers and dreamers (over unity and free energy too) is the inability to understand and measure what’s going on. And then of course to make their measurements and calculations public so people can evaluate them.

This came to light for me recently when I watched a video in youtube (I’ll post when I find the link again). The guy had a DC motor he was driving it with another DC motor using a power source (he had a rubber tube coupler). He measured a higher voltage on the motor being driven than the power source. He claimed his system was “over unity” because of this voltage increase. It made me realize how important it is to understand measurement (not to mention what is being measured). I wanted to make a response to the video showing me with a beer. I’d measure the height of the beer and then pour the beer into a different glass. In the new glass I would measure a greater height and claim that I was creating beer.

Anyways, since I’ve cut the online connection to Thane Heins, I moved this here so I can respond further.

I set up a small generator LED combination that is very efficient. Perhaps we can try and run that.