So I have my dongle, and my crossover cable and had some sequences, but it is now time to start to get the real plan together. how many, what, where, when and how.

How many, that will have to wait as I can build only so much before I have to call it quits and get on with the what and when parts and the sequencing part.  That time has pretty much come.

tara wants me to do some pinwheels as seen at the Mini and I really like the Leaping arches that Larry setup.  There is also the Large fan which was way cool as well.

My granddaughter and I set a 20 foot fan up for Mother’s day.  She was the director, I had 4 songs that were almost done. The fan took 15 channels so there was a center to it.

While I built the fan she was practicing her directing of the music.

The fan was built with 2 10 foot 1″ pvc pipes, and a short U for the center tie.  2 rebars pound in the ground about 18 feet apart.  The fan was a good 6.5 feet high.  It took most of the day to string the 30 sets of 100 count lights so they look like a fan when they were lit.

Since there was some math to do and Shae was into fractions at school.  I took the opprotunity to show her how to use what she learned.  SO we had (1/2) half a pie and we needed to cut it in 15 (1/15)  slices. She pondered the idea for a while. Didn’t quite understand why we used half of a pie for the likes of a whole fan.

I showed her a whole pie and cut it in half and stood it on end.  She then saw how a fan was like half a pie .. and now we need 15 slices.  I knew we weren’t going to convert the 18 foot diameter to inches, then calculate the circumfance and then find out the size of each the slices  .. that was beyond her at her level.  SO we just played with cuting the 1/2 pie into 15 pieces ..  not quite the math I had planned but Shae can now see how handy it would be to know howw to calculate that kind of thing.

So we were already to go and had my daughter and of course tara, both mothers come out and sit in the chairs that we had placed.   Shae introduced herself as the director and the show started … She did an incredible job of directing the fan to the music as if she was a professional … and recieved a standing ovation from the mothers.

SO take time to get the kids involved with you. Shae alwasy asks as soon as she comes to the door to visit “papa what are we going to build today”

with the Christmas rushing upon me …. there will be lots to build, Leaping arches, fans, Firesticks, stars, Pinwheels … hmmmmm what should I do first ..