EON Industries Part One

Hey, so it's been a while for sure. I may post something later that is for updates to life. Today I wanted to show the projects I've been working on.

The first thing: I wanted to create a company that I could base a lot of my projects out of, so... I think I finally narrowed down EON Industries (c). I'll just split different divisions as I go. This first project I was asked to complete for a local haunt for Halloween and is part of my Tech Div. I was brought in to assist mostly with construction and electrical work plus lighting and effects advisory.

The project was to design and build a control box that would house all the switches and dials and do-dads to control effects and lights. So...I present to you my project titled "Switch-IE".

I know...awesome comforter :P

So this first picture if just of the basic frame for the top panel which I had already constructed. This one was a huge pain because the gang boxes were so close to each other which made the center brace difficult to place...

The one to the right is the front panel attached and the back one up in the background. As is visible, I did wire one switch up to 1st switch gang and used 12ga....turns out it's incredibly difficult to mold to where you want it.

This one...yeah it's coming together. Got the back panel attached, guess what's next?!

I chose to go with 14ga because it's still to code and will also bend and mold to where I want it to go. Putting all the switches in was a breeze.

Here's all the outlet gangs wired up. Each, aside from power in (at far left), are separate and are controlled by a single switch on front panel

Here's the inner guts of the project as it looks now. I should have the dimmer switches tonight so I can wire those guys up. Also, I need two more terminal blocks for common and possibly another for "hot." The current block may be a little overloaded.

If all goes well, I should be able to test it come Thursday this week. If things test well, then comes the awesome paint job I've envisioned. I'll throw some more info up this weekend. Ja ne!

All pictures are Copyright (c) 2010 and property of Myka Rangel

Finally some pictures from the wreck!

So it took me a little while to actually get these pictures up... I didn't want to put them up on facebook because that would just be a little weird! Anywho, here they are!

John and I in the waiting room (Seth has camera)

It had been a few hours so the bandage was stuck to my arm...
A little saline will do the trick!
Ta-da!Cleaning it upWhat a buddy!Up close...ER doctor numbing up my armOh yeah...the inside of my flesh!

So there ya go, everything's all healed up now in an awesome scar!
Bone is also healing up quite well.

Updates and random statements...

As I'm quite new to this whole idea of having a "blog" or space where I can rant about random things... I'm not sure what will be said here for a little while.

Moving out is quite an adventure. I never really understood or had a good idea of what it was going to be like to move out and move away from my family. Needless to say I was quite taken back when it all came down to it. Moving really just came out of nowhere and hit me pretty fast to force me to choose. I was presented with an opportunity I could not really refuse. I have so many good friends here in Pocatello and one very kind and generous one offered to let me live in his grandparents house with him. Seeing as how it was free rent and a place to stay... I took it up! I'll always be very appreciative of John and his generosity for allowing me to stay there. Recently I moved into an apartment with a friend and boy do things just keep getting weirder for me. So many things have been running through my mind in the past little bit and my brain's not used to processing them and I find that getting advice from other people is helpful yet also...

It's something interesting when you move out and you get all of these new feelings and find out how much you are actually missing out on back home. I've started to change a lot of those feelings though and keep telling myself, this is your place now, you're life is starting now. I love my family more than anything and am so appreciated of everything that they have done and continue to do for me.

Aside from all the weirdness life is going really well right now. I'm in school and I love it! Though it is going to take some serious studying and determintation to get good grades, I'm really enjoying it. Japanese classes and Calculus are going well so far albeit classes have only been in session for nearly two weeks. Other than school...work is okay. Life is going smoothly right now and that's just perfect for me.