{"id":749,"date":"2012-06-17T15:37:45","date_gmt":"2012-06-17T19:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/?p=749"},"modified":"2012-06-17T15:37:45","modified_gmt":"2012-06-17T19:37:45","slug":"hack-a-week-goes-to-maker-faire-nc-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/hack-a-week-goes-to-maker-faire-nc-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Hack A Week goes to Maker Faire NC 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a week&#8217;s worth of prep involving several late nights and the reconstruction of some projects, Hack A Week made a good showing at Maker Faire NC. The crowd was bigger than last year and the layout was perfect. I had a 20&#8242; x 10&#8242; area to show off eleven projects including the &#8220;Fetch-O-Matic&#8221; automatic ball launcher which was a huge hit with the kids. They were great beta testers and the thing held up great! Look for a complete build article in the July issue of Make Magazine which will feature the ball launcher on the cover!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/?attachment_id=751\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-751\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/M31-ball-lsauncher-cover1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Make Vol 31\" width=\"547\" height=\"789\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-751\" srcset=\"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/M31-ball-lsauncher-cover1.jpg 547w, http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/M31-ball-lsauncher-cover1-103x150.jpg 103w, http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/M31-ball-lsauncher-cover1-207x300.jpg 207w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 547px) 100vw, 547px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a guy that found my stepper motor generator project of interest&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/?attachment_id=752\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-752\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/maker-faire-HAW-005.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"maker faire HAW 005\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-752\" srcset=\"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/maker-faire-HAW-005.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/maker-faire-HAW-005-150x112.jpg 150w, http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/maker-faire-HAW-005-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of course, I hacked my name badge&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/?attachment_id=753\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-753\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/hacked-badge.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"hacked badge\" width=\"720\" height=\"960\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-753\" srcset=\"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/hacked-badge.jpg 720w, http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/hacked-badge-112x150.jpg 112w, http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/hacked-badge-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I had two robots there and I used one of them, the PropBot, to hold my cell phone and shoot a robot&#8217;s eye view video as it weaved it&#8217;s way through the crowd&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s5P8zBpIvwE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; and of course, I posted this video to YouTube last night showing off my stuff and the rest of the entries in the faire.<\/p>\n<p>Keep On Hackin!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yxbR63q8BdY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a week&#8217;s worth of prep involving several late nights and the reconstruction of some projects, Hack A Week made a good showing at Maker Faire NC. The crowd was bigger than last year and the layout was perfect. I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/hack-a-week-goes-to-maker-faire-nc-2012\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hacks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":763,"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions\/763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}