Hooray, 100 days on the road!  We parked last night in a more open location on BLM land, and I positioned the RV so the Pallo Verde tree provided shade, but not so much that it cast a shadow over the solar panels.  It turned out to be significantly cooler today, only getting up to 76.  It was a beautiful day!

Since Shabbos starts at 4:30ish, homeschooling took up most of our day.  One of our son’s classes is microcontroller programming, and today we took a break from the textbook we’re using to build a thermostat for the 12 volt bathroom exhaust fan.  The fan cools the RV nicely, but leaving it on overnight uses up quite a bit of battery power, so we used an off the shelf thermostat as an input to the Arduino, which then uses a relay to turn the fan on and off, so when the cabin temperature falls below 70, the fan will turn off.  Here we are working on it, doesn’t he look excited?  He did both the wiring and the programming:

Here’s our daughter working on her math.  We later did our class on Scratch programming, and she worked on using events and messaging to allow sprites to interact with one another.

Just another day in our little homeschool!