{"id":842,"date":"2016-12-25T06:35:27","date_gmt":"2016-12-25T11:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/?p=842"},"modified":"2016-12-25T09:55:05","modified_gmt":"2016-12-25T14:55:05","slug":"week-51-2016-wrapping-up-the-year-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/?p=842","title":{"rendered":"Week 51, 2016 &#8211; Wrapping Up The Year &#8211; Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>H***y H***days! (Don&#8217;t ask. You&#8217;ll follow my example if you don&#8217;t want to be hounded by C*****mas-themed spambots until <em>the heat-death of the universe.<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>Okay, so here we are. The end of the year. \u00a0I guess first and foremost, the responsible thing would be to list the things I still haven&#8217;t managed to do this year, as a reminder to myself&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I have a few nearly-finished posts in draft form that haven&#8217;t made it up yet:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A review of the game Shenzhen I\/O<\/li>\n<li>A post about 3D printer upgrades<\/li>\n<li>A post about live-streaming<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s actually a lot less than I expected! &#8230;of course then there&#8217;s the ones I never got around to even starting&#8230; Foremost among these is probably the one about 3D printing-related crowdfunding campaigns I&#8217;ve backed&#8230; And it&#8217;s probably just as well that I haven&#8217;t done it yet, because the biggest\u00a0one of all hasn&#8217;t arrived yet! (But it&#8217;s sitting <del>on a boat<\/del> in customs at the port of Long Beach!)<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also the progress I&#8217;ve been meaning to write about regarding my <a href=\"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/?p=392\" target=\"_blank\">HOTAS modifications<\/a>, which will eventually turn into a complete custom stick and throttle project&#8230; For now, I&#8217;ll give you a sample&#8230; Since I just finished it the other day!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/media.makecoolthings.com\/wp\/2016\/12\/x36mods_dbutton_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-839 size-medium aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/media.makecoolthings.com\/wp\/2016\/12\/x36mods_dbutton_1-e1482493790884-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.makecoolthings.com\/wp\/2016\/12\/x36mods_dbutton_1-e1482493790884-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/media.makecoolthings.com\/wp\/2016\/12\/x36mods_dbutton_1-e1482493790884-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/media.makecoolthings.com\/wp\/2016\/12\/x36mods_dbutton_1-e1482493790884.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anyway, next weekend I&#8217;ll talk about what I hope to do in the coming year! (Ironically, New Years Day is still technically the last day of the 52nd week of 2016&#8230; #JustISOThings )<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>H***y H***days! (Don&#8217;t ask. You&#8217;ll follow my example if you don&#8217;t want to be hounded by C*****mas-themed spambots until the heat-death of the universe.) Okay, so here we are. The end of the year. \u00a0I guess first and foremost, the responsible thing would be to list the things I still haven&#8217;t managed to do this [&hellip;]<\/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":[1,28],"tags":[],"wf_post_folders":[79],"class_list":["post-842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogposts","category-status-report"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NlLW-dA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842","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=842"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":847,"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions\/847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=842"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fwf_post_folders&post=842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}