Science Fun (part 2), now with poster printables

There's nothing quite like playing with legos indoors while waiting for the next Nor'easter to hit.  Hardly any snow in February, and now 4 blizzards in March.  But we don't mind.  It gives us more time to work on our personal projects.

The human and her male counterpart did their best to raid the AG store back in January, and we're still reaping the benefits.  Lily has claimed the new dinosaur t-shirt.  We have all learned from past experience that we do not ask about what exactly Lily is making in the lab.  It's better for everyone that way.

Human interjection:

A quick review of some of the new clothes (the t-shirt from the NASA souvenir set, and the dinosaur t-shirt):  they run small.  Sized for dolls with a 10.25" waist and 10.75" chest small.  Only the dolls made after 2015 could wear them.  Also, the sleeves on the dinosaur shirt barely go over the hands.  I like the shirts, but the issue of fit is definitely making me not want to buy new doll clothes from AG unless I take a doll to the store, try it on the doll in-store after purchase, and return what doesn't fit immediately.  Luckily, I can also just sew my own.

And now back to the dolls...

Sam is working on ...something... involving programing a tiny microcontroller.  Turns out, if you have a tiny Adafruit Gemma microcontroller board, you can kind-of-sort-of attach it to an AG laptop.  And Sam has her programming buddy, LEGO Margaret Hamilton, to help her debug.  We do not yet have a doll-sized stack of Apollo guidance module control code.  The human might have balked at printing out 4500 sheets of doll-sized paper for it (and that's the doll-scale model).

Nellie and Cauth have done that thing of making LEGO landmines all over the floor.  They'll finish the Women of NASA LEGO set eventually, we think.  And then it will be time to start the LEGO BB8.  We desperately need to go along with our R2 unit.  It's smaller, so we're sure we can find a place for it here somewhere.

Yes, that is a sonic screwdriver.  No, you may not have it.

And finally, a cute little craft for those last minute Easter baskets or because someone needs more posters in their room:  the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's vintage space tourism posters.  The Mars poster is the same one in Luciana's Mars Habitat.  There's 20 different posters in all.  Print them on lightweight cardstock for the best effect.

JPL Space Tourism Posters