Boating Not Sailing

Daniel Bigelow

Jan 19, 2025 — 1 min read

We went out on the boat today. Unfortunatlly it wasn't really windy enough to even put up the sails. We had a lot of fun, but it would have been better sailing. It was pretty cold at times, but not terribly. I took a ton of pictures for BlueSky, and for here.

I think we are trying to go next weekend, but I don't know that we will make it, as it's supposed to be pretty busy.

Waren called Grandma Sharon and asked for a sleep over, so he is sleeping there tonight. Which is good, because he was driving us crazy with non-stop talking. We watched some youtube and relaxed all evening.

Utah Hockey Club

Today we got to go see a Utah Hockey Club game at the Delta Center. Utah Hockey Club is Utah's new NHL team that we got this year. Normally tickets run hundreds of dollars, but they are selling limited views tickets through a promotion for $10 a piece. The game

Autodesk Fusion

I am working more on creating my wind direction sensor. I normally use Blender, but I feel like other applications are better at the precision work that I need. I watched a 20 minute tutorial on youtube, and got some basics down. I am not very good at it yet,

New Wind Vane Sensor

I am switching methods of angle sensing. After some testing, I think the rotary encoder has too much resistance to use for a wind sensor. I switched to a AS5600 Hall effect sensor, and have been playing around with it. It actually seems to be way better that the other

Pizza and Planning

I got home from work today and took a good nap. When I got up we decided to got to pizza pie cafe. The kids were thrilled, and Mark had wanted to go there anyways. It was really packed so it made it a bit hard to get what we

Read more

Utah Hockey Club

Autodesk Fusion

New Wind Vane Sensor

Pizza and Planning