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Tried some Lion Mare, very interesting and easy to grow mushroom that is actually quite tasty:

it was already primed when I got it, ready to grow

before long...

nice

it came to a sad end for the mushroom, but it was yummy for us :)

The other set was yellow oyster mushroom. This was a bit more picky. It had to be tented in to keep the moisture, otherwise it would dry out. However, doing so would also asphyxiate it and it would die because it couldn't breathe, but if you make too many breathing holes, then it's at risk of drying out again:

it started well

and then it died

tried again

and then it died, again

one more try

and finally it worked out

good crop

tried a 2nd crop

not as big, but still enough to eat

the end :)

This was the perfect excuse to go try my new shirt + pants with neopixels I had worked on (including new light effect code I wrote and battery saving patch to run up to 12H on a single battery). I found a few other people who were lit up, but compared to burning man where you'd get "oh, 200 neopixels, so cute, I have 1000 Watts' worth on my art car, they can be seen 2 miles away", there weren't too many people lit up. I found 5 or 6 of them though:

After some questions, I wrote a separate page on my lit up shirt and pants.

Day #1: Video summary:

Ruben de Ronde

Menno de Jong

Ben Nicky

Pure Nrg did a great set playing drums on top of that

Liquid Soul

Good to see Paul Oakenfold again, it's been 16 years since I first saw him

hard to get Oakey smiling nowadays, he doesn't seem that happy the rest of the time

Markus Schulz

Paul Van Dyk

After a bit of rest, it was Day #2: Video summary:

Binary Finary

Fleming & Lawrence

Bryan Kearney

Vini Vici

Astrix

John O' Callaghan

Ferry Corsten

Gareth Emery

Cool audio gear:

this is for work

but you can even play tetris on it

Some crowd shots:

Sadly, not enough people with lighting:

Some people shots:

Sadly, I never managed to go see him perform way back then, so it was super cool to see that he did a US tour and that I'd finally be able to see him. Better late than never...

Here's a video summary:

JMJ did a tune with Snowden

JMJ is most well known for his laser musical harp

Thanks to my friend Arnaud, we got invited to the after party for the crew:

Jennifer made a good friend there:

I guess they are Saison's competitor and honestly Saison was totally overpriced without being better. Quince is definitely a better deal, and had more courses (not that more is always better, but in this case it was).

Some pictures:

Definitely a good dinner and Jennifer enjoyed the wine course (good pairings).

DJ Blurr

Kyay and_Albert then took over

blade runner umbrella was all I needed :)

3D printed shoes, pretty cool actually

this would be very cool at burning man :)

tiny arcade worked and looked super cool

Z80 clone, very cool

nice way to show how FPV works

Miniature worlds were great:

Big things:

remember seeing those guys at burning man, they look better at night ;)

this robot was cool, but unreliable

and it died before being able to hit the car (on its 3rd failed attempt)

the Tesla coil from my neighbours at Burning Man

The dark room was fun as always:

The Google booth had some friends:

learning about the upcoming total eclipse

A few talks:

Ahah, other people have been making neomatrices:

Attila's new ride

Oh boy, this looks mean :)

Hopefully mine doesn't look too bad :)

Ovidiu doing a test fit :)

tire testing, or something :)

BR Racing, to support us and our cars. Thanks guys!

Looking forward to the next one.

a roomba for grass, good iea, but expensive ($1500+)

Always nice pictures:

Also, nice display of RC aircraft and cars:

Then, in 2017: https://youtu.be/DKVqUDhz3Cc?t=33m50s