Jules is soon going to be 20 years old. He just finished his exams for his second year at University. He has been very disciplined all year to make sure he would not fall behind in his work. He has a group project to complete and the year 2021 for him will be done!
He will then leave for Holland for a summer job at Optiver . He went through a tough recruitment process a few months ago.
We will probably go to see him during the summer.
He has a few days of “break” to recover from exams and called me to have a day together doing nerdy stuff together. It was a super fun day. As always we did not do half of what we wanted to do but it was nice to spend time with my little boy now grown-up to full-size adult….
So we decided to make some beer….using a kit I ordered on Amazon a few weeks ago. That is a lot of cleaning and preparation for just a few pints of IPA.
We have done the brewing part and the beer is now fermenting. It is definitely making a lot of bubbles…Need to wait a couple of weeks before we can finish that project and bottle the beer.
As usual, I ordered more stuff on Amazon to track the level of alcohol etc…
I also shared with him all the stuff I have been doing in my garage over the last few months and showed him some computer-controlled tools I made.
We also started coding the RGB-LED screen I made for him. We decided to add a new micro-controller to the screen to track temperature, humidity and air pressure. We went through the details of the I2C protocol and soldered the bits and bobs required.
As we were fooling around with the screen we decided that it needed a way to stand on its own. So I designed a “foot” for the frame and 3D printed it quickly to attach to the screen.
Was a super fun day, just sad it is already finished….and will be a long time again before we have another. Although I think of the time when he was a little boy of 5 or 6 years old as a special time in my memory, I am also looking forward to all the amazing things we can still do together in the future.
