Still Hacking Like Heck

Hi Karen:

When I saw that Ben was leaving it was almost unreal to me. I have enjoyed what he was doing and felt like an online mentor to me.

I figured I had a chance just as much as anyone else to enter this contest and "shine" just like anybody else in this electronics field--I was driven to make this happen and was so determined to come up with an end product, I didn't think of the few factors against me:

• In the month of March, I had multiple trade shows with work and the Coast Guard, so I was from Orlando, Dunkirk, NY and Goshen, IN, and so on for the month March with about less than a week to prep for each.
• I realized for the rest of March, I should have been working on the portable project and filming as well. A lot of my issue was learning on the fly, meaning learning Fusion 360 in great depth and figuring out how to the time-lapse in my 3d printers to work, let alone making a second design to work out properly and more realistically.
• In the end, I didn't know nearly enough as I had figured with Fusion 360, and the design ultimately fell apart due to dimensioning issues, which I figured were good but certainly did not house everything properly. Either it was improper use of my calipers, dimensioning things piece by piece or I was inputting it wrong in Fusion 360.

Overall, the time lapsing all came out fine in the way of filming, but everything stated above was why I final film could not be done at all. There was still a lot of video capturing and videoing that needed to be done and there wasn't enough time between full time work and duty.

Even still, with this experience, I would like to produce and make technical videos still, like I was doing on my channel, as you see, it may take me extra time with all that is going for me. At times it's difficult to give a project the time it needs especially when some skills are not as sharp as others, so with me it can drag on sometimes until a solution can be found. Even though that's may be, I still would like to make videos share what I am doing. I was thinking releasing some older content however the cringe is too much and the syncing on some is off too. 

Sorry to hear that life did, indeed, get in the way for you. You could still finish your video and post it to the community. Or if not the video, I'm sure many would find even a blog post of your build fascinating. I hope you continue to share your builds and look forward to seeing it if you do!

I am still in the dust.

I enter the submission page and the submission button returns error again and again. I have to post the video in Pin Ball Table

Video casting is more challenge to me than Hacking and Coding. But it is really interesting. I realize now Making some ideas into video is much better than blog only.

It did. I figured I knew more than I anticipated that I did; I just had never created an original design until this moment lol.

Seeing I have all the parts, some shot recorded and made a design, I'll likely follow it up and finish it out.

I think we'll all be left in the dust after BENEXIT ! Considering the popular dropout vote of 18/17 we must respect these populist democratic anomalies that gave us the wonder of drumpt-ski , br-not-london-scotland-or ni-exit and the freedom of interwebz sp3lling!

I think the community will agree 100%, We must start from scratch again, recreate BEN HECK in VR combined with the most statistically popular projected espurt game of the future GOLF, & evolve original projects through the community into a new era of VR/AR ..and AI/IOT ..and cats/sloths/cute looking insects!

>>>>>>>>>>>>> 3 words :  Ben Heck's Electro-golf-tronix <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

BENEXIT means BENEXIT !

Hey Karen,

Glad to see a great selection of talent made it in on time

To help with your questions - I love making things. And making a video about hacking things is something that's been on the list for a while. I figured this was the perfect excuse to get started. I would still like to wrap this one up, and maybe do something in the future. And well, if I had to guess what held up this build, it might've had something to do with the house breaking, then the car breaking, then the dryer, and then the car again. At some point you have to assume the universe is trying to tell you something.

But on the plus side, it was a lot of fun!

"In the dark", not "In the dust".

"Left in the dust" is very similar! like "left behind"/"left in the dark" etc.. I think you should contact Karen directly about the issue!

Hi fyaocn ,

Voting is now closed and to qualify for prizes the submission needed to be an unpublished YouTube video by April 5th.

There was some confusion as the form was not behaving as intended so this deadline was pushed but only enough time to reach those who may have experienced technical difficulties.

With that said, I moved your video to Maker Film Festival  where it can be enjoyed with the rest of the project videos!

:-)