Might be cool to go after this. I think we do 10 cool things in the lab in a month. 10 people could each do one.

Ryan I know you do a lot of instructables. What do you think?

http://www.instructables.com/sponsorship/

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I actually really like instructables.  I was out in SF last May and
got to meet their team, who all seemed like awesome hackers who
legitimately care about doing cool things and supporting people doing
cool things.

And then talking with some of them later, the "contests" and things
that they do seem more like excuses to give hardware away to
hackerspaces, which I think is also really cool.

I say we do this...but keep in mind that there are some REALLY GOOD
makers that make REALLY GOOD things for some of these contests, so
getting selected for sponsorship could be tough.

Although, honestly, even if we didn't, instructables is a good
community.  I know at least a couple of projects I've done have been
at the encouragement of some of the other posters there.  I think it
would be good to expose some of the lab to that.

I basically have nothing negative to say about them at all.  LETS DO IT!

I can pledge to get my countertop project finished and write an
instructable for it.  (Based on this: http://imgur.com/a/4qcbb)

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On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Jacob Rosenthal

I like this idea. I'd be willing to help come up with some guides.

-ChadCS

I want to help out with this!!!!!!!!!!!!

:-D

Nudge, nudge.... JACOB how can we make this more real?!

No need to ask Jacob; from the website: just write a Step-by-Step
Instructable and once we have 10, compile them into a guide. For help on
how to submit your guide, please see
http://www.instructables.com/sponsorship/details.jsp

Who's got a project they can write an Instructable on? I could do one for
my shift register LED matrix, or RFID interlock...
On Oct 8, 2012 6:34 PM, "Ingrid Avendaño" <ingridavend...@gmail.com> wrote:

Agreed. I'm not personally heading this one up, just saw it as a
neat opportunity.

Just write an Instructable and before you publish it, click the link to see
how to tie it in with the HeatSync group :)

On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Jacob Rosenthal <jakerosent...@gmail.com>wrote:

Reading the page, it says the 10 instructables must be compiled into an entire guide. Won't theyall need to be related?

Reading the page, it says the 10 instructables must be compiled into an entire guide. Won't theyall need to be related?

Not necessarily; Radio Shack has a guide titled "RadioShack presents 18
More Awesome Projects"
http://www.instructables.com/id/RadioShack-presents-18-More-Awesome-P...

They're all electronics projects, but I'd venture we could submit a guide
on "10 Awesome Projects from HeatSync" if they really didn't share a theme.

Hmm, we could do 10 guides around a specific project, I actually think that
would be really cool.

For instance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkLduKd57Cs  (Alyson's bumper
bot)

1) Connecting your arduino to your computer
2) Lighting LEDs [gotta light the robot]
3) Operating a switch [the bumper]
4) Laser cutting the chassis
5) Servo library
6) Continuous rotation servos
7) [now adding stuff] Using a bluetooth module
8) etc.
9) etc.
10) etc.