{"id":71376,"date":"2020-01-16T02:32:52","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T06:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=71376"},"modified":"2020-01-22T01:28:49","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T05:28:49","slug":"wednesday-night-hotel-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2020\/01\/16\/wednesday-night-hotel-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday night \u2013 hotel lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a fun and busy day at MIT. Spent some of it with my friend Chris passing out information about the Citori hack-athon that we&#8217;re doing a January 28 and 29th. It was fun to walk around campus. I also had a great meeting with my friend Randi and her group talking about their projects of using robots to teach Programming and\ufffc AI to kids. It was so inspiring\ufffc<\/p>\n<p>Tonight Akash, Yasmini, Sara And I had a quick dinner at aceitunes. Akash followed me back to the hotel so I could show him the marx generator project I was working on\ufffc. When he left\u2026 I got inspired and decided to package up the whole high voltage supply chains . It was fun trying to do a project like that in the hotel room. I brought some tools and Saturday and iron. But for the most part I had to improvise on tools parts etc. It actually came out pretty nicely. It allows me to make about a 5 inch spark from a simple cell phone brick. Battery<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/img_3315.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-71371\" width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\" srcset=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/img_3315.jpg 4032w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/img_3315.jpg 150w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/img_3315.jpg 300w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/img_3315.jpg 768w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/img_3315.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/img_3315.jpg 948w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/img_3315.jpg 1422w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/img_3318.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-71373\" width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\" srcset=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/img_3318.jpg 4032w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/img_3318.jpg 150w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/img_3318.jpg 300w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/img_3318.jpg 768w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/img_3318.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/img_3318.jpg 948w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/img_3318.jpg 1422w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/img_3319.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-71372\" width=\"3024\" height=\"4032\" srcset=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/img_3319.jpg 3024w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/img_3319.jpg 113w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/img_3319.jpg 225w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/img_3319.jpg 768w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/img_3319.jpg 948w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/img_3319.jpg 1422w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/img_3320.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-71374\" width=\"3024\" height=\"4032\" srcset=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/img_3320.jpg 3024w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/img_3320.jpg 113w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/img_3320.jpg 225w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/img_3320.jpg 768w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/img_3320.jpg 948w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/img_3320.jpg 1422w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/img_3321.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-71375\" width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\" srcset=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/img_3321.jpg 4032w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/img_3321.jpg 150w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/img_3321.jpg 300w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/img_3321.jpg 768w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/img_3321.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/img_3321.jpg 948w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/img_3321.jpg 1422w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s more fun to invent when you don&#8217;t have everything you need.<\/p>\n<p>Great metaphor for life\ufffc<\/p>\n<p>Nite all, nite Sam<\/p>\n<p>-me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a fun and busy day at MIT. Spent some of it with my friend Chris passing out information about the Citori hack-athon that we&#8217;re doing a January 28 and 29th. It was fun to walk around campus. I also had a great meeting with my friend Randi and her group talking about their &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2020\/01\/16\/wednesday-night-hotel-lab\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wednesday night \u2013 hotel lab<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71377,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71376\/revisions\/71377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}