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By Justin on July 18th, 2009, 6:04 pm 3 Comments

Another week and another day in 406 Pelissier, which as it continues is now part of Windsor’s Visual Fringe. It’s tough to find time to get down there, but I think we made the best of a few hours last Tuesday. We’re continuing work with the planters, which is (as they always seems to be) another fairly long-term research and development type of project. However, we made some great progress and some new strategies for designing the planters, and did a couple more test transplants.

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Being Productive Again: Day 3

By Justin on June 25th, 2009, 11:08 pm 8 Comments

Another great day in 406 Pelissier. We got lots of brainstorming done and continued our planning and work with plastic bag recycling projects.

It’s been a fantastic three days, and being able to work in such a concentrated way in just one week has been really helpful in pushing forward on some new ideas. We came up with a good plan for some “must do” things over the next few months, more details soon!

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Justin: ahhh nice. thanks for the link!
darren: adafruit has been selling those for quite a while http://www.adafruit.com/index. php?main_page=product_info&...
Justin: Yes, Mark, thanks for the pics and the suggestions for the list, that area around the Casino fell into the sites of apology side...
tinyenormous: Hi justin! For the 2 line contrast thing I have run into similar issues before. I recommend using a pot to control the...
Mark Boscariol: p.s. pelissier bldg isn’t mine, but I know the guy who bought it
Mark Boscariol: Cool, couldn’t make it but I hope you got the pics I dropped off. 3 houses across from casino parking garage...
Justin: Sorry we missed you! But, this might not be the last time we do this … I think there are still a lot of places that could...
pc: i wish i could have been there. I had a list of places I wanted to add!