We all went out this morning to visit the Engineering Open House at the local University. I only stayed until lunch, while Mom kept the rest of the kids till mid afternoon. We toured some robotics exhibits and dropped by a student rocket group that our club has been helping out. We watched them fly a couple of rockets on cables over the creek, which was OK — the motors were a bit under powered. I suppose they were concerned about hitting the bridge at the other end of the cable at high speed.
Corwin’s primary goal was to try as many flight simulators as possible. I think he got to do three, two of planes and one of RC craft (so a simulation of a simulation of flight). One had a big three screen display with a hat that tracked where you were looking so we could all get motion sick as Corwin looked back and forth and the display shifted in synchronization.
We tried a nanotech exhibit but the kids didn’t seem to get why Mom and Dad thought it was cool. Alice’s big thrill was getting a yo-yo at one building and flinging it around so we feared for everyone in the local area.
Corwin flies