I’ll start:
I’m debugging a Swift programming language application running on an iPad controlling a Universal Robotics arm, five single board computers and 4 laser distance measurement devices to create 3D scans of weld metal overlay in large (30 ft dia x 80 ft tall) refinery vessels.
I’m reverse engineering a set of musical instrument mouthpieces. Acoustics at this level is a black art. Ok, 2 sentences.
Since I don’t have anything to work on I’m trying to look busy.
Brass or woodwind?
brass. flugelhorn specifically.
parts that are changing for the 95th time.
I spent a period, back when I was a music major, searching for the perfect trombone mouthpiece for my embouchure. For where I was as a musician, that time would have been better spent in the practice room.
I’m going through 20 years of blog posts and cleaning them up to migrate them out of WordPress.
When I started this WP was a blogging platform. It’s evolved into a website development platform and I’m not interested.
I’m leaning toward either Publii or Bludit. I “think” Publii has the lead right now.
Won’t really know until the data is cleaned up, and uniform enough to import properly.
That’s funny. I was a trombone performance major at New England Conservatory before I joined the Navy as a trombonist. After the Navy I went to engineering school.
Perfect mouthpiece is a Doug Elliott modular, by the way. For bass bone it’s a Curry 1.5D.
Ever think of taking it up again? (we’re going to get derailed into an off topic thread here shortly.)
I spent my first 2 years at UNT (it was NTSU back then) before realizing there wasn’t much of a market for Jazz composers / arrangers in the late 1980s. I knew I didn’t want to live the life of a 3rd trombonist in whatever traveling Jazz band would hire me, so I moved back home and went to Ga Tech. (Which I also bailed on to work on race cars.)
I will have to look when I get home. I want to say my mouthpiece is a 52c, but that is relying on a memory that has proven itself unreliable.
I bought a trumpet a decade ago thinking I would get decent and find a local community band to join. I spent a few months practicing, but I could only put in about 15 minutes at a time before my lips needed a break. At some point I took a day off, which led to a few days off, which led to the trumpet sitting in the closet next to the trombone. (And the guitar, and the piano.) Now I live in BFE, and the closest community band is over 30 minutes away.
I am creating models and drawings for a presentation to our customer for quoting the manufacture of a crap load (technical term) of aerospace components.
Somehow I’ve become one of the old guys with experience and in a position where I don’t really have any projects of my own; I’m a helper, reviewing things, bouncing ideas, and encouraging my colleagues to come up with good questions on their own.
Designing new product our sale will show in trade show and convince customer not to buy.
I’m working on a small beverage canning machine for a local brewery.
Updating a previous prototype from 48 cans/minute to ~120-130 cans/minute.
Designing a new trailer meant for the American market to answer a need that a lot of potential customers have.
I spent time in Navy Music as well. Started with trombone and switched to bass guitar. 1983-2004.
What band were you in? I was at Norfolk 85-89.
Did you do a UNITAS Tour while at Norfolk? I was at 7th Fleet, San Francisco, New Orleans, Seattle, 6th Fleet, and Newport.
I am modelling what an entire department was supposed to do, but since they decided that “2d was better” they made the usual mess, leaving the shop to come to us begging for some 3d design to build the things together somehow.
I have a whole PDM to fix btw.
Tell the shop to learn 2D. You can’t clean up management’s mess.
