Parallax to Visit the Midwest!
For all you fellow folks from the heartland wishing for Parallax to make a visit our way:
In case you didn't catch it on the Parallax main page, Parallax will be at the Sensors show in Rosemont, IL on June 12th and 13th. The International Robots and Vision Show is also running at the same time and place, one pass gets you into both shows. I didn't find the registration page for the sensors show, but did find the page for the Robot and vision show:
www.robots-vision-show.info/robots_vision_show_info.html
From that link, take the "Registration" link near the top of the page on the right hand side.
Note that these are not "consumer" shows, and anyone under 18 is not admitted. The robots are more likely to be industrial robots and high end vision systems.
John
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John R.
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In case you didn't catch it on the Parallax main page, Parallax will be at the Sensors show in Rosemont, IL on June 12th and 13th. The International Robots and Vision Show is also running at the same time and place, one pass gets you into both shows. I didn't find the registration page for the sensors show, but did find the page for the Robot and vision show:
www.robots-vision-show.info/robots_vision_show_info.html
From that link, take the "Registration" link near the top of the page on the right hand side.
Note that these are not "consumer" shows, and anyone under 18 is not admitted. The robots are more likely to be industrial robots and high end vision systems.
John
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John R.
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Yes, come see us! Most of you already know about the different products we show at these events, but it would still be great to meet our customers face-to-face. I'll be there both days and my dad is helping me out too. He's retired but he really likes sensors and trade shows so we'll do this one together. We'll show our different sensors with BASIC Stamps, some Propeller demos, and chit-chat about your different projects.
Come and visit us!
Ken Gracey
Parallax, Inc.
Are there any shows like this in Europe, preferably in Belgium or the Netherlands?
Gr,
Mightor
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| What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.
We often receive marketing packages for the European shows, but we rarely attend them. Sometimes we leave it up to our distributors. Most frequently we attend the Embedded Systems Conference in Nurmburg, Germany. In the Netherlands we often run Educator's Courses, though. Those are better than any trade show, in my opinion.
Getting over there and returning is a big time commitment. It's a lot of fun, but not everybody in our office likes to travel to a destination for 20 hours. I do, though, especially if I can bring part of the family.
Ken Gracey
Gee. Illinois is in the midwest?
--Bill; In The Land Of Oz
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I just got back home from the show and it was great to see Ken and Chuck. They had a nice setup with a number of BOE boards set up with various sensor on, as well as the Prop, etc. Ken also had the prototype for the new drive system with. It is a slick little unit!
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John R.
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I grew up in Indiana, and we considered ourselves, as well as Ohio — but not Pennsylvania (East) or Kentucky (South, but not Deep South) — as part of the Midwest, too. As an aside, the University of Michigan Fight Song proclaims the school as "the leader of the West", even though Ann Arbor is well east of the Mississippi. These terms must've come into vogue durng the country's westward expansion.
-Phil
Why, gosh! I just guess everyone wants to live here in the Midwest. So, ok. I am going to officially accept all states in the middle third of the country between Mexico and Canada.
So let it be written. So let it be done.
Congratulations.
--Bill
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John R.
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Well, if you can read it on the Internet it must be true!
HOWEVER, I LIVE IN THE MIDWEST. KANSAS is the Midwest. The Midwest is bordered by Oklahoma, which is known as the Southern Midwest, Colorada; the Western Midwest, Nebraska; the Northern Midwest, and Missouri; the Eastern Midwest.
Further, the geographic center of the United States is in Kansas, as is the mathematical center of mass.
Hummpphhh! wikepedia! They are always asking for corrections, anyway. Know we know why.
--Bill
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Until today I always thought you lived on a boat in San Diego. Don't ask me why I think that, but I was pretty sure that you lived on a sailboat all the time. It's not just because you're wearing a sailor-looking hat, either. Maybe you really live in the western part of Kansas and it's so far "west" that it's really "west" like California? Is there a town in Kansas called San Diego? [noparse]:)[/noparse]
Ken
Speaking of which, he disappeared from the forums shortly after this post. Last time I checked (around·6·months ago) he was docked in Puget Sound, but the tracking info is now stale. According to his website·he's in·Chula Vista until next month then will be sailing southward·before returning next year sometime.·What a life!·
This fly over photograph is recent enough that there's actually a chance one of these boats is his: http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=pf3dyc5778b8&style=o&lvl=1&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&scene=6321017&encType=1
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Paul Baker
Propeller Applications Engineer
Parallax, Inc.
Post Edited (Paul Baker (Parallax)) : 6/14/2007 3:43:44 AM GMT
(Danged elves! They quit showing up at night to clean up.)
-Phil
PAR
You beat me to the comment. It is encouraging that one of the "greats" around here functions in a similar environment. There is hope...
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Truly Understand the Fundamentals and the Path will be so much easier...
I will be 58 this August. I am retiring January 1. Of course, my wife and I have been talking about where we will wind up . . . should we EVER decide to leave the magical Land Of Oz. (Once, I counted the trees on I-70 from KC to Goodland.)
The south central portion of Colorado, in the Wet Mountains overlooking the Wet Mountain Valley to the majestic 14k peaks of the Sangre de Cristos are calling me pretty loudly. Reputedly, it is the only place in the world that you can see mountains from horizon to horizon. All the views will take your breath away. (We had a place there but some non-English speaking Germans came over on vacation and had to have it exactly twice as bad as I did. So, I have some·Deutschmarks and pictures and they have a vacation spot.)
I was born on the Gulf coast though. I am a displaced Cajun boy. (Dad and I ran a little shrimp boat because shrimp and crab were all we could afford to eat.) So, my wife and I are thinking about a place at 9k to 10k feet in the Wet Mountains and some kind of boat, probably a converted trawler, that we can putt around in from the Keys to our time share in Cozumel. When we get tired of not seeing people in the isolation of Colorado's Wet Mountains, we will head to the Gulf and not see people about 12 miles off-shore.
But, not during hurricane season. Here in Kansas, we have tornadoes. You can actually stand within 300 feet of a toranado and it will MISS you. Hurricanes NEVER miss.
This is a good, off-topic thread, though. I will have to convert some space in that trawler to a shop. I will have Parallax stuff staged everywhere from the Keys, to Galveston, and down to Brownsville and back. You guys can track me by my shipping address.
--Bill
ps There are two of those hats. One says "Montery" and the other says "Key West." Now, THAT was a trip!
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Post Edited (Bill Chennault) : 6/14/2007 2:01:00 PM GMT
Sounds like you've got some interesting options. I wish you the best, but be sure you have space for a small electronics lab wherever you land. Vielleicht kannst du den Deutsche Marks zuruck kommen.
Phil,
Your desk is an absolute mess. If I had to face that disaster every day I'd crack. I have new respect for people operating with a messy desk, though I can't help but wonder how productive you'd be if you got "organized". Start with a trip to the Container Store. And a cat on top of it all, gently pushing papers and components into eachother as he walks around just doesn't sound right. I live with a Virgo, and they've got no heart for disorganization.
As long as you're getting the job done. . . no respect is lost!
Ken Gracey
Parallax, Inc.
I'm obviously not a Virgo, nor — apparently — is my cat.
My policy is to do a clean-up when the time/cost spent searching for stuff exceeds the time/cost spent organizing it and if there's not something more urgent crying for attention, or if a visit from the insurance inspector is imminent. I'm not there yet, but getting close. Nonetheless, I do take comfort in articles like this one.
The photo is my R&D bench, which stays neat after a major cleanup for maybe a day, two days tops. That's just the way it is. More concerning is the assembly bench, which stayed pretty well organized and inventoried until I switched to SMD parts. That's when things came unraveled, and I've yet to find a good way to store that stuff so I can find it easily. I've tried bead containers for individual components (the labels fall off: polyethylene lids) and ziplock bags organized by project (but parts cross over between projects). Consequently, I've often rebought parts that I know I've got somewhere. But at a penny apiece who's going to spend all day looking for 22K 0603 resistors?
I guess I'd better start leaving better snacks out at night for the elves. Maybe they'll come back.
-Phil
Well, you exceeded my German and apparently Google's German, as well. If it IS German, then Google thinks you said, "Perhaps you can come the German Marks zuruck."
I think you said, "Take solace in enumerating the foriegn currency."
--Bill
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It's nearly the opposite. Something like "Perhaps you can get the Deutsche Marks to come back" in exchange for the property should you decide that would have been the best place to retire. But my German is incorrect, honestly. I've got some noun-verb problems I'll probably never resolve.
It's far more practical to take solace in enumerating the foreign currency at this point. The Gulf Coast is where you belong, on a shrimp trawler.
Ken Gracey
Parallax, Inc.