I guess I should start out with a bit of an introduction:
*deep breath*
I am a patient advocate specializing in Disability Represenation before the Department of Health and Human Services, namely the Social Security Administration (SSA).
I am also an ad hoc consultant, in areas ranging from (naturally) disability and administrative law to biomedical devices. Sooner, rather than later, I'll be incorporating with a partner, but as it stands now, I'm just Wet, while WetSpark Consulting, LLC, waits for the Spark to get settled.
I'm also an amateur blacksmith and founder, meaning I can beat senseless, or nearly incenerate, just about anything until it turns into something pretty.
The only things off limits in that department are, naturally, radioactive elements, and a few refractory materials whose melting points require an arc furnace or some variation on Fe2O3/Al Thermite.
Further areas of interest, more on the amateur, or "as needed" basis, are ballistics and pyrotechnics, primarily in the vein of model rocketry and so-called "Spud Guns" or "Potato Cannons", as well as microcontrollers and other forms of digital and analog control and interface devices.
Currently on the drawing board are a few projects including two that just migrated to full "under construction" status. The most prominent is a small projector that aims to perform rather alot like the new Texas Instruments Pico Projector, but at a much lower (think fractional) price point, with equal or better performance.
The second project is the aforementioned "Potato Cannon". As with anything I do, I have aimed for perfection, and swung for the fence. Luckily, I've made solid contact with the ball, and we'll have to see if the outfielders can grow a few inches taller and snag this one from just over the fence.
I'll leave you with this, and post a more detailed blog about it later: Picture a standard propane powered potato cannon. Add a computer controlled fuel injection system, bolt action and an automatic chamber ventilation system, muzzle brake, and integral bipod and shoulder rest.
This is part of a project that includes a few other props for an upcoming independent film. So far the cannon itself may or may not actually make it "on screen", but the Damascus steel cane sword I'm forging this weekend most certainly will.Check out the soon to be reshot first-run trailer for Terra, here.
That's all folks. I'll continue my epic saga of bringing my clients one day closer to tomorrow, tomorrow.
Until then, goodnight, and good luck.
Rion
