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!

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.

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.