{"id":38,"date":"2012-10-01T15:08:55","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T15:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brettjpeterson.com\/blog\/?p=38"},"modified":"2012-10-01T15:08:55","modified_gmt":"2012-10-01T15:08:55","slug":"maker-faire-ny-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brettjpeterson.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/01\/maker-faire-ny-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Maker Faire NY 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday I volunteered at 2 booths for Maker Faire NY. I&#8217;ve been to the faire in California 3 or 4 times, but this was my first in New York! It was a ton of fun and I got to meet and work with great people.<\/p>\n<p>First up was the <a href=\"http:\/\/nerdyderby.com\">Nerdy Derby<\/a>. The idea was dreamed up and made into a reality by fellow ITP students and it was awesome. It&#8217;s basically a no-rules pinewood derby race. There were supplies provided for kids to make cars on the spot and then race them on our track. I had a lot of fun talking to makers, registering their cars and then helping run the races. Here&#8217;s a video that someone took with a camera attached to the car:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G8r3DE4NfcE\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It was a blast! The part I loved seeing the most were parents encouraging their children to make things and not stepping in to do it for them. I loved seeing all the creative ideas for cars and parts and the thought that some of these kids put into their vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>The next half of the day I volunteered at the Arduino booth. I did some small workshops showing how to make LEDs blink, but mostly talked to people about Arduino and all the possible uses. It was fun to talk to people with a wide range of experience with microcontrollers (I had questions from &#8220;what exactly is a microcomputer&#8221; to &#8220;Did you know the preprocessor is broken?&#8221;) I had a great time and enjoyed volunteering for a cause I believe in &#8211; helping people understand electronics using an open platform.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday I volunteered at 2 booths for Maker Faire NY. I&#8217;ve been to the faire in California 3 or 4 times, but this was my first in New York! It was a ton of fun and I got to meet and work with great people. First up was the Nerdy Derby. The idea was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[9,6,7,8],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-itp","category-physcomp","tag-arduino","tag-maker-faire","tag-maker-faire-new-york","tag-nerdy-derby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brettjpeterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brettjpeterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brettjpeterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brettjpeterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brettjpeterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brettjpeterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40,"href":"https:\/\/brettjpeterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions\/40"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brettjpeterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brettjpeterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brettjpeterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}