[Robotgroup] Banquet Thoughts... :)

[john at cozmicfunk.com]

Dear TRG: The Banquet and the company was awesome, You all are the best!
Thanks to everyone that thought about me to nominate me for a Da Vinci Award!


<In my minds eye I was hoping to design something so cool that someday, 
in the future, NO ONE one would EVER find a Davinci Award stuffed in a 
box with some dusty old bowling trophies at a garage sale.. ;)>

I am going to put the da vinci in my film somewhere, I already have zillions of LEDs all over the place, it will make a neat addition to the background somewhere in one of the sets. Then when I finish next year and the film gets shown, you can take pride in knowing that the award is not in the dust waiting for a garage sale, but rather being part of the history of my film project, so Vern, you can add one more event to the TRG list of accomplishments as "Prop Designer" in my movie credits!

thanks again, I love you all very much:)

JPF 



Vern Graner wrote:
> I wanted to take a moment to say THANK YOU for some amazing 
> behind-the-scenes work done by the folks that brought my primitive 
> pencil sketches to life as the "Davinci Awards":
>
> ** Ed Xavier Gonzalez
> - For his beautiful and detailed work with the laser cutting and 
> etching, his experience and input on design details, and his creative 
> ability helping us come up with the name (but for his input, they might 
> have been known as the "blinkies" or some such!)  :)
>
> ** Paul Atkinson
> -For his work in designing the PC boards, etching them, drilling them, 
> locating software and programming the PIC chips, populating, soldering 
> and individually testing every circuit board, coming up with with the 
> "PC board in a AA battery area of a 4xAA holder". :)
>
> ** Rick Abbot
> -For locating, bending, bead-blasting and drilling the metal, finishing 
> the black acrylic "shim" in front of the acrylic, drilling and tapping 
> the acrylic parts and performing the final assembly of all the parts 
> (even though we didn't finally get him all the bits till the day of the 
> banquet!) :)
>
> ** Nic Graner
> -For sitting at the kitchen table helping Rick pull all the "paper" from 
> the itty-bitty etchings of text and graphics on each acrylic piece. :)
>
> I'm glad we were able to keep the project under wraps so the awards 
> could be a surprise. A LOT of thought and effort went into their 
> creation and I hope they will find a place of honor in their respective 
> new homes.
>
> In my minds eye I was hoping to design something so cool that someday, 
> in the future, NO ONE one would EVER find a Davinci Award stuffed in a 
> box with some dusty old bowling trophies at a garage sale.. ;)
>
> Vern
>
>