Space-Time Portal Forms

 

In keeping with the current breaking information on UFOs, here is a picture of a portal forming over Northern Nevada last week.  We managed to beat back the invasion, but just about everyone got the MIB "blinky thing", so no one remembers.

Have a great day😁

Break Time Over

 

But that doesn't mean that the building did not continue during the break.  The above picture is what my two older grandsons built in the last week on their own.  The 15 month old grandson tried to join in and had started on his own creation when Dad decided it was not age appropriate.  But he is also a builder.

They started with this kit, which took about two days on and off.  Eventually some form of this will end up in the display, more of powered ship instead of a rover.

Then moved on to more free form building.  This build actually had a theme.  As you can read from this sign it was an Air and Space Shop.

And the Shop even had a swimming pool.

Now where did all this come from?  Obviously it came from Brick stock.  This picture shows the end result. So I am taking this opportunity to re-organize what I have.  It will be several days of work, but in the end I will be better off.

 

Break Time

 Time for coffee and doughnuts 

We will be taking a short one week break.  One recovery time and two, the family is visiting.  

When we return, there will be maintenance on the entire display that will be needed (several LEDs are out),   Plus three module still need to be updated to the latest Brick Buddy controllers.  Finally I need to finish Brick Buddy 2 and 3 as well as Light Buddy 1 and 2, the PC software and the Android software.  That will take me to August without a problem.  I am sure there are multiple unknown problems ahead.  But they will be solved.

Enjoy the coffee and doughnuts.

Brick Fest Live - Day TWO

 We definitely faired better than these two coming back from the last patrol.

I did not talk about attendance.  Saturday was actually very good and we were busy almost the entire day.  Sunday was also good.,  It was busy from opening time until abut 3PM, which is very typical of these events on a Sunday.  I am actually very pleased with the attendance.  There was lots of interest in what we are doing.  Also with Bricks by the Bay being canceled this year, this would be the only event in the San Jose area for the year.

There were the standard Cos players.  Here we have a storm trooper, but there was also Mandalorians and First Order Cos players running during both days.

For those who had a VIP badge (paid the extra), there was the Brick Bot build area.  They kept this behind curtains, so there was no way to know exactly what was going on.  But the line was always fairly long.

What was very nice and is lacking at most Lego User Group Conventions, is the interactive activities for the public.  Now that the pandemic is mostly behind us, there were multiple interactive activities for the attendees.  Here are some of the build tables.

Another nice feature is the black light build area.  As we saw in Omaha at Brick Days with the Aquarium, using bricks under black light to add another dimension to the display.  Here are some more pictures of this area at Brick Fest Live.

This was a great success for us. We had a great time.  Met some very interesting people and dedicated builders.  So we are very happy.  Here are some closing pictures of the backside SL ONE.

And now we march off having completed the mission and get ready for another day.

Brick Fest Live - Day ONE

Day ONE starts with finalizing the detailing.  Above I have added doughnuts to the supervisors as the oversee the small workforce.

Here the alien population gets added along with a walker.

This is the rogue droid recovery.  One Worker holding the long pole and the other worker trying to capture the droid.  Success is yet to be determined.

Populating the blue patrol groups and we are ready to go.

What about Brick Fest in general?  Well here are some of the activities they offer.

A huge pit of bricks.  This ended up with about twenty people in it most of the time.  Some "snow angels", but mostly people just building creations out of the bricks.

For those less adventurous, there were traditional build tables with lots of different bricks.

For the artist, there was a large black light section with about 75% of the bricks the type that will fluoresce under black light.  You could build a creation under the black light, then they had another space where you could leave it for attendees to look at.

A car race setup.  They had four raceways with 5 lanes each.  They gave each person just a few minutes to build a car, then they raced them.  No prizes, just bragging rights.

More build tables.

A message wall.

This was very interesting.  A large mural on the floor.  Each person is given a base plate, access to tiles and plan for the base plate.  Each one is numbered. The person builds up the base plate and then it is placed on the floor in the appropriate place.  Kind of a jig saw puzzle, but different.  Then as time goes along, you can watch the mural fill in.  It took all day to do this.

We will wrap this up in the next post.