{"id":625,"date":"2016-03-13T00:25:24","date_gmt":"2016-03-13T05:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/?p=625"},"modified":"2016-04-15T18:21:30","modified_gmt":"2016-04-15T23:21:30","slug":"week-10-2016-props-propaganda-programming-and-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/?p=625","title":{"rendered":"Week 10, 2016 – Props, Propaganda, Programming, and Projects."},"content":{"rendered":"

First of all, let’s take a moment to talk about prop making; \u00a0It’s something that I have a real interest in but I can never seem to afford moldmaking and casting supplies… \u00a0Well, I’m not going to let that stop me from making some props before I have the ability to duplicate them.<\/p>\n

Right now, my biggest obstacle– putting aside money issues and for the moment just looking at what I have –is the surface quality of my 3D prints. \u00a0To that end I spent some money on some basic necessities like Bondo body filler, Bondo spot putty, some quality automotive wet\/dry sandpaper, and a sanding block. \u00a0Bill Doran has a great video on using Bondo<\/a>, and his video on preparing\u00a0mold masters<\/a>\u00a0also contains some applicable info.<\/p>\n

Propaganda! By which I mean videoblogging! \u00a0I just got a cheap little steadicam thing for my video camera so I can do handheld shots that are actually stable. \u00a0It’s really quite something.<\/p>\n

Programming! I’ve got some cool Arduino ideas I want to play with, one of them is\u00a0inspired by this cool post I found<\/a>\u00a0about making an Arduino Wi-Fi scanner that displays the SSIDs of open wifi APs on a little OLED<\/acronym> display.<\/p>\n

Projects! I’ve got a 3D printing and prop making project in the works based on my current favorite videogame; Tom Clancy’s The Division<\/em>, which inspired an additional project which I can’t talk about right now… ;D<\/p>\n

Gonna be pretty cool though!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First of all, let’s take a moment to talk about prop making; \u00a0It’s something that I have a real interest in but I can never seem to afford moldmaking and casting supplies… \u00a0Well, I’m not going to let that stop me from making some props before I have the ability to duplicate them. Right now, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[28],"tags":[45,35,71,69,70],"wf_post_folders":[79],"class_list":["post-625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-status-report","tag-3d-printing","tag-arduino","tag-programming","tag-prop-making","tag-videogames"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NlLW-a5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=625"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":633,"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions\/633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=625"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fwf_post_folders&post=625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}