Merry Christmas, Joyous Kwanza, Happy Hanukkah, and (for the pagans) Enjoy the Winter Solstice!  Please enjoy this video from HaHa’s favorite high-voltage Brit, PhotonicInduction!  Enjoy! (And if you haven’t watched PhotonicInduction’s YouTube videos, DO IT NOW! They will change how you view high voltage forever.)

NPR has an interesting piece about a new wave in Hackerspace funding and facilities: Public libraries are partnering with hacker- and makerspaces in a win-win relationship.  The libraries, struggling with trying to stay relevant in the new digital distribution model for books and media, get the foot traffic they need while the hackerspaces get funding opportunities, proper facilities (not a small task), and an outlet for exposure to new members.  So far, only a few libraries/makerspaces have partnerships, but those participating are satisfied with the arrangement.

All packed up and ready to go!  Public display and judging begins at 3pm!  Wish us luck.  After 72 hours of sweat, rain, and Red Bull, we finished our creation.  Worthy of description by Mary Shelley, our accordion-style mode of transport is sure to eat a few misplaced fingers if folks aren’t careful.  But, when was the last time you had fun that didn’t have a least a little bit o’ danger in it?  Step up, hang on and count your fingers when you’re done…

Even though the weather has been…..terrible…..we’ve slogged on, making some important progress in the last few hours.  Here are some construction photos, a video of our rainy build area and the first video proof that what we made will move in at least some fashion.  Enjoy.

Like the HaHa Red Bull Creation Team on this page to help them win the “People’s Maker Award”.  Come on, we need your help!

Drawing, theorizing and arguing are over.  Now is the time for actual building!  After an additional run to buy some steel and tracking down a ‘big’ Home Depot, the HaHa dudes are in full on construction mode.  RBBB from ModernDevice is being featured in one of the shots.  Spoiler alert: the pictures below contain large portions of the build design.

Know what that is?  It’s a winning idea, that’s what!  Well, we hope it is, anyway.  It is just as tiny piece of what is drawn on our whiteboard, a small morsel, a teaser of our build idea.  Any guesses?  So, the junk pile was a bit disappointing.  Miles was not too happy about the item selection process and let everyone know it.  Hopefully, he’ll cool off soon.  We need his delicious brainssss!

We’ve been Hack-a-Day’ed!  Thanks for the traffic.  You should all bookmark our site now so you can come back and see the awesome (and usually ridiculous) things we build on a regular basis.  Also, keep track of the happenings at the Red Bull Creation challenge as we’ll be updating out site throughout this grueling 72 hour hack event.  Gotta run to the sheet metal store now.  So long and thanks for all the hits! {eeek squeak eeek for all you dolphins out there…}

Rain delay?  No way!  The hack continues through the rain.  Nothin’ gonna stop us now!  Paul snapped these pictures of all of our stuff getting wet.  Who was the genius at Red Bull that thought building us roofs would be a good idea but then left big holes in them?  Oh, well, water is good for laptops, right?

Our digs @ Red Bull Creation.  Notice the sombrero on Jeff?  Our signature ‘uniform’ for this challenge.  Might come in handy later.  Looks like rain.