u/FarmingGeeks

This is just my thoughts, I've had a drink or so tonight so forgive me.

I left 25-26 years ago. Left for the military visited a few times but its been 24-25 years since I've been here. Had to come back because my mother got sick and has been in ICU.

How far it seems Tucson has fallen though. I flew into the TUS airport and rented a car. First thing I noticed, there is no road maintenance, at all. It reminds me of a beach town where the roads get decimated by the salt. I will say within 10 minutes of driving I did get assaulted by a tumbleweed. I laughed so hard. But tumbleweed growing up through the concrete medians. Rough roads just seemed forgotten.

I grew up in some lower income areas. And at the time they were not great great. There was some gang activity but by my friends and i ran the roads on bikes, skateboards and rollerblading. I only got jumped a few times, once had a bike syolen frombunder my ass. Man we would go down the roads and paths on the rillito wash constantly. Back and forth to Tucson mall, skate country and everywhere. Went for a ride in the old neighborhoods near there. Holy shit man what happened? Its rough, sketchy, ghetto what ever you want to call it. I look up stats, constantly shootings, some officer involved some just gang violence. It amazes me.

I had this grand image of what "backhome" was until I came back here. My image almost got completely destroyed. But it was about to rain and the smell, the smell is different from where I am now. So many memories came back of loving the rain. Standing in cooling off. Then i paused again tonight and watched the sunset. Once again we don't have sunsets like this in my new place.

Overall the landscape is beautiful, breathtaking. But you guys need to take your city back. Get your gov to fix the damn roads. Get the casinos to pitch in like they initially said they would. And try to combat the decline due to drugs and gangs. I loved Tucson and just want to see it as it should be.

So I have begun working on the opensource controller program and hardware for mostly the Champion thrower systems (wheely bird & workhorse).

We have our own little 5 stand set up and it annoys me that with the remotes you cannot throw a true pair unless you program one remote to two throwers. For our puller who sometimes is my Spouse, sometimes my 7 year old daughter, too many remotes gets a little confusing at times. Don't get me wrong they both do great and watching the little one is like watching a conductor and a symphony. But there is a better way especially with 7 throwers.

The idea is to make it to where anyone can set this up. I will probably end up selling the components so that everything works properly together but this should be fully scalable and easily modified.

I am working on a website for updates. My plan is to have something working by the fall. Its too hot to shoot now and I only work on this when I am not busy with work or the farm. So it might be a bit.

Several people have expressed some interest in this so I wanted to let people know that I am working on it.

If you want to keep up with the project I have made a website that I will update as I can. Its more important to me to get it up and running than have constant updates but I will do my best. https://openclays.com/

Getting stocked up for after we cut hay. I needs to shoots.