Archive for September, 2018

Music District 2nd

Sunday, September 30th, 2018

The strange case of musical veggies:

The vegetable piano was a big hit

How could the green pepper play a note?

And then there’s the soda straw flutes

OK, this worked at the Rice Science Night and I had left over straws so…

Tube percussion

I like that they had this nice chair to sit in when you played this instrument

Banjo playing frog

I bought this frog for $1 and put a location sensor in it’s nose. The sensor signals go to an Arduino Leonardo that interprets the signal and sends a command to a laptop for processing. The frog “plays” a banjo tune depending where you stand.

Corgi Days

Saturday, September 29th, 2018

Sort of

The Corgis came out

Most of them behaved

Except for Duncan Madog who has become moody lately. He was dressed as Waldo as in “Where’s Waldo” fame. Note his picture is not here.

DIY TUBES

Friday, September 21st, 2018

I started making this tube percussion machine for the Music District show next week. Here are some pictures w/o any more text:

Watch for posts about this next week.

Boyd Lake

Wednesday, September 19th, 2018

On the last day for this year:

Jeanne and Duncan Madog take a boat ride on the lake

Beached Boat

We couldn’t help them; If we came close, we may have been stuck. We told the shore patrol about it and maybe they are free. I don’t know.

TOUR DE FAT

Saturday, September 1st, 2018

Hey, this is year 10 for us!

These girls were playing the Surdos

And here is a sample of the bike riders

This year’s pirate ship is bigger!

And there were some interesting out of this world costumes

Of course BLOCO EM FOCO was there!