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Day Two: The Wandering

Maddie the InternMaddie the Intern Posts: 81
edited 2011-07-21 13:45 in General Discussion
Looks like the early stages of a Parallax booth preparing for Maker Faire 2011: New York!

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The Parallax Inc sign!

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The conference room display!

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I'm told there are 600 boxes here (the other 600 will be added tomorrow) in preparation for more robot kits!

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The MOSFET will never let you forget! See MattG's hand along the thumb (two burns- ouch!)

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More to come!

-MaddieTheIntern
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  • RobotWorkshopRobotWorkshop Posts: 2,307
    edited 2011-07-20 19:20
    Maddie the Intern wrote: »
    Looks like the early stages of a Parallax booth preparing for Maker Faire 2011: New York!


    Are you going to be at the Maker Faire 2011 in Detroit? It is next weekend at the Henry Ford Musuem. Awesome show last year and this one should be great too!
  • Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 23,514
    edited 2011-07-20 19:34
    Matt has a kind of Bill Nye the Science Guy air about him, doesn't he? But two burns? Well, okay, sometimes it takes one to get one's attention and two to drive home the point: no touchy touchy! :)

    Note to Parallax: Buy Matt a temperature probe.

    -Phil
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,259
    edited 2011-07-20 19:46
    I have a sneaking suspicion that one of Matt G's burns comes not from a soldering iron, but a wood burning tool. He's about the right age to have misused one in his formative years. That wood explain much about his Xylophobia...

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xylophobia
  • Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 23,514
    edited 2011-07-20 19:57
    erco,

    OTOH, a fear of xylophones is not at all irrational; accordions, even less so.

    BTW, I assembled my first Heathkit using a wood-burning tool as a soldering iron!

    -Phil
  • UnknownUnknown
    edited 2011-07-21 06:15
    Maddie the Intern wrote: »
    Looks like the early stages of a Parallax booth preparing for Maker Faire 2011: New York!

    You are missing one of those electronic photoframes to advertise Upene. I've seen hundreds of pictures uploaded to Parallax's website and these people go to Make. I'm sure they might go to Upene if they knew about it. Its a perfect advertisement opportunity.
  • Maddie the InternMaddie the Intern Posts: 81
    edited 2011-07-21 10:50
    RobotWorkshop wrote: »
    Are you going to be at the Maker Faire 2011 in Detroit? It is next weekend at the Henry Ford Musuem. Awesome show last year and this one should be great too!

    Unfortunately, we will be unable to make Detroit this year (but we're hoping to make more and more of the Faire's in the future!).

    We are looking ahead for future Faires and Expos to participate in (But 8 days to Maker Faire Detroit was too soon)! We'll see about next year, however.... :]

    -MaddieTheIntern
  • WhitWhit Posts: 4,191
    edited 2011-07-21 11:02
    @ Maddie - Great pics Maddie. Keep em coming.

    Don't let your Dad play with matches.

    @Phil - is there anything like that any more? My uncle built his first radio. I wish I had paid more attention back then...
  • Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 23,514
    edited 2011-07-21 11:46
    Whit,

    There are still kits aplenty out there, but from companies the general public doesn't hear about. Here are some examples:

    I recently built this one for a friend of mine:

    It didn't come with an enclosure, external connectors, or controls, so I had to improvise a little (see attached photo).

    As much as I enjoy designing and programming microcontroller stuff, it still can't match building a radio from a kit or from scratch and hearing it pick up signals for the first time out of thin air. For me, combining the two passions would bring the ultimate satisfaction. That's why I'm so keen on Propeller signal-processing apps.

    Now back to Maddie's originally scheduled programming... :)

    -Phil
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  • WhitWhit Posts: 4,191
    edited 2011-07-21 13:21
    @Maddie,

    Tell me about those boxes...
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,259
    edited 2011-07-21 13:30
    @PhiPi: I still have my HR-10B, DX-60B, and HW-16 novice station. Gotta love them vintage vac-tube Heathkits.

    These old CW rigs will still be going strong long after EMPs take out cell phones and all the solid state stuff.

    73's OM!
  • JimInCAJimInCA Posts: 80
    edited 2011-07-21 13:45
    Maddie the Intern wrote: »
    ...
    We are looking ahead for future Faires and Expos to participate in.... :]

    -MaddieTheIntern

    Is ESC 2012 Silicon Valley on the list? Parallax was noticeably absent from this year's MulticoreEXPO portion of ESC.
    Jim...
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