The Va Tech fusor team visited last Friday (1/28/11) to see a fusor run and ask some questions about how to improve the one they are working on now. Hopefully, we helped them! It was quite a full house, since Bill Fain came down for the event, and Joe Jarski was also here for a visit. Always nice to be able to put a real personality to a name on the web!
We managed a somewhat successful run, showing them how we do it, and how we do instrumentation, though time didn't permit the demo of our computer data acquisition stuff on this go -- next time, fellas.
Various pictures were taken, and I'm hoping the Tech team will chime in here to annotate who is who and so on -- and guys, if you like we can create a subforum here to document your project and make a place for any questions/discussion wanted. It's pretty easy with this software, so let me know if you think that's a good idea.
Bill Fain took this one outdoors as we were on the tight side indoors to get everyone.
He must be a genius -- how he got a picture of me with my mouth shut I'll never know! I'm a little hoarse from all the talking the last couple of days. Put this one down to humor.
Lee Hall sent me an email with the legend for the pictures:
Names for the first picture, left to right: Mark Pierson, Brad Bersin, Lee Hall, Trey Gebhart, Shawn Murray, Johnny Shelton, Patrick Poitras, and Chris Radford.
The bottom picture, left to right: Mark Pierson, Chris Radford, Brad Bersin, and Patrick Poitras.
So, most of the recent new members are these guys, and I'm hoping they will chime in with names and announce themselves in general, so we really get to know them and can help them better.
Also, they took a good number of pictures I hope they'll send me or post up here. Hint on that -- scale them down as not everyone has a super fast inet connection here. I usually go for 1024 or 1280 width and some compression on jpeg for example.
Videos can be put on youtube and linked from here (see the howto on this site).