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Maker Faire 2012 - On The Verge

2012-11-09
man well yellow ethics copy a lowball time i'm here at maker faire which is kind of like a Renaissance Fair for for nerds for no I guess rid of thoughts fairs are for nerds it's like a to renaissance fair for makers I'm gonna see what uh see what I can see and maybe maybe learn how to program a tithe on and build my own robot I don't know whatever so this is Tommy Wars is the official name that was we came up with at the beginning of the 72-hour build off so everything in here with built in 72 hours yeah we actually have two potentiometers there's one in this thumb and one on this thumb and there's an Arduino program that's basically monitoring those two potentiometers and determining whether or not there's a pin based on the threshold and the amount of time that the thumbs are down so these are the 124 I bear the pub or yeah and then basically tell me nobody says that uh yeah are you really that bad you yeah it's so cool when I was coming in this kid with his dad look I like I skated past them and he's like whoa as I like a boy wait for it wait for his like he's got a skateboard I felt like just like a superhero it's bright up yes before I'll do we got a straight okay I go all the way it'll do you like four miles an hour yeah oh my gosh is this like the primary expression of what you do absolutely the blog there's there's nothing better in the world and taking something up here and then transform you into reality and having everyone enjoy it it's the best feeling in the world can you power slide in this it's a blue sparks gone well you've transformed relaxation into reality and it just kind of positions oh yeah I don't have to go anywhere you know it's I've gone to the relaxation town under scale stop so he's like gonna be about got to be impaled this is vertical how do you turn figured out oh yeah we're out of Portsmouth Virginia um yeah totally schoo stirs we're right on the ocean road this all the way up oh no you can't handle top speed we took an electric wheelchair basically cut it up welded a bunch of stuff onto the chassis modified a little bit and no now it has a hammock that suspended in this is awesome you said it can get up to five g's its person has a Deadman switch whoever lets go of the Deadman switch first losers obviously but then it slides down dinner one died yet you have a barf bag ready dad it was not growing him oh my gosh totally fine the whole time and they soon stopped my eyes are like yeah like getting my eyes kept going I'm like shaking and I'm like movie I actually want a hot dog now I want to do it a kid really bad I'm not really into the spinning that's how goose died now I'm having a lot of fun here but uh I don't know maybe I having too much fun you know America used to build things he's the go places uh feel like I should make something myself green LEDs I really need soldering irons you did I don't know how to solder I don't hold a soldering gun I have so much school this is the Raspberry Pi starter kit which I've been told to get and I gonna fill with this stuff but uh it looks really cool so I'm gonna try to build something with it and you know we'll see what we'll see what happens it's gonna be an adventure and I can fall on my face but that's what this what's all about discovery you
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