Sam is ill and the TV are coming!

CONA Rangiora is now well underway and some things are going really well. But it wouldn’t be as much fun if there wasn’t a few spanners in the works.

Here is Sam beating an ODIN into submission.
(photo Ian Longley)

Firstly, most of the early participants will have been contacted by, or met, our Instrument Scientist, Sam. Sam is based in our Christchurch office and is running the ODINs, the PACMANs and the thermometers in volunteer’s homes. He is also currently confined to his couch at home having picked up the winter bug. This means a (hopefully short) pause in that part of the project. Get well Sam!

Meanwhile the project has attracted a bit of positive attention and a crew from TVNZ will be in town tonight, primarily to capture some shots of the helikite which will be making its maiden voyage above the town this evening.

And we are nearly at the point of getting a feel for how well the data capture for the project is going as a whole. Before long it will already be time to start thinking about what we will do next year.

We’ll let you know how it all goes.