Chat with Matt about EB1, drag racing

matt He's not very Web friendly. But I could get him to my house for a vid cchat one night.

mattWhat's this for?

Charles Truett art

Charles Truett " "

Charles Truett ultimately I'd like to be able to drive the thing over the web

Charles Truett that's the goal

Charles Truett but one thing at a time

Charles Truett he's a drag racer?

Charles Truett i didn't know that was a profession

matt Oh, it's a profession alright. Needle nose dragsters.

Charles Truett oh those long skinny things

Charles Truett excellent

matt One time I went to pick up O after work, aand I heard John's car rumbling in the yard. I walk around back to see Owen behind the wheel of a running needle nose car, with a helmet on.

Charles Truett that's an interesting moment right there

matt Hwe looked like his head was going to explode with happiness.

Charles Truett i'm sure

Charles Truett maybe if i made a sketch for him you could show it to him

matt Many other days, I arrive at the babysitter's to find O sitting shirtless with John, eating some sort of random fruit they picked out at the store. John says to O, "This is livin', right buddy?" It's hilarious.

matt Long Island baby.

matt Pardon me if I'm wrecking the artistic mystery of this, but how are you going to "drive this over the Web?"

matt John.

matt Lifelong car mechanic. Owned his own shop for 30 years, but sold it to go racing three or four years back.

Charles Truett ok well, i hook it up with electronics that allow me to talk to it - not sure which protocol just yet

Charles Truett but i can send it signals to go forward, back, left, right

Charles Truett via mobile phone or website

Charles Truett and then, hopefully, track it via google earth

matt Now he does some carpentry and muscle car work on the side. But if you ask him what he does for a living, he says, "I race."

Charles Truett well, that's what i'd say

matt Where are you going to drive this thing?

Charles Truett probably prospect park, or out in redhook

matt And how are you going to avoid getting put in Gitmo?

Charles Truett well it would be using regular cell networks

matt Like that matters.

Charles Truett so it should be ok

Charles Truett we'll see i guess

Charles Truett i think i can do this

Charles Truett but that it will be difficult

matt This sounds really cool.

Charles Truett but step one is to turn a granny cart into a kickass RC car

matt So you want John as a consultant on what sort of engine to buy.

Charles Truett i think what i'll do, is make a sketch of what i want, you show it to him, and see what he thinks

matt Okay. Good. I'll talk to him on the way home tonight.

Charles Truett outstanding

matt When you say Granny Cart, do you mean like the ones they use to go to the supermarket?

Charles Truett that's the one

Charles Truett let me show you

matt Want to video chat?

matt I see you've got a camera.

Charles Truett http://a.parsons.edu/~truett/cbtsablog/archives/eb1.1.jpg

Charles Truett something went wrong

matt Does that red bag hold the engine? or is that just a real granny cart?

Charles Truett the bag contains earthbase1

Charles Truett http://a.parsons.edu/~truett/cbtsablog/archives/eb1again.JPG

matt Do the vid chat one more time. Send me an invite.

Charles Truett it's probably our firewall

matt I get your invite, but then I get an error that says I failed to accept your invite. I think there's something blocking it from this side of the world.

matt So you need to have an engine on top of the earthbase bag.

Charles Truett under

Charles Truett no?

matt Right. I meat "in addition to".

Charles Truett my first thought was to buy a pretty good sized RC car, and fuse the two

matt Okay, let me talk to John.

Charles Truett john will know what to do

Charles Truett maybe an old lawnmower engine

matt I think he'll be thinking "go kart engine" or laawn mower engine. But let's see.

Charles Truett or chainsaw

Charles Truett ok, see, that's so much more awesome

matt you should have a separate chainsaw on the front.

Charles Truett i could come out to LI and build it with him

Charles Truett that would be outstanding

matt Yeah, he gets into stuff like this.

matt Lemme see what he says.

Charles Truett this could be incredible

Charles Truett show him those pictures

Charles Truett and my site

Charles Truett a.parsons.edu/~truett/thesis

Charles Truett unless he's not into the web thing

Charles Truett this will be an earth rover for the exploration of earth.

Charles Truett eventually it will be loaded up with environmental sensors that it will publish to the website

Charles Truett\ that's phase 2

matt It's very cool, and you're not right in the head. And I mean that in a good way.

matt I'll talk to him tonight.

matt You want to do lunch one day this week?

Charles Truett no, this week is impossible. but next week should be better

mattbrthl Okay. I'll ding you then. I'll let you know what John says.

matmatttbrthl Gotta run. See you later.

Charles Truett can't wait to hear

Charles Truett bye

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