I hung out with @Montagist who is pretty awesome! He’s a super intelligent guy. I think I can honestly say I learn something new each time we chat. We first met at Flash and the City and he was the first person to ever recognized me off twitter (unconventional ways to meet people).

We had some food at a Chinese restaurant first:

Then we went off to Alpha One Labs to play with robotics (yup that’s what I do on a Friday night).

We got the first project to work which was simply to make the lights blink on from the Arduino playground site.

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/*Blink
 Turns on an LED on for one second, then off for one second, repeatedly.
 The circuit:
 * LED connected from digital pin 13 to ground.
 * Note: On most Arduino boards, there is already an LED on the board
 connected to pin 13, so you don't need any extra components for this example.
  Created 1 June 2005
 By David Cuartielles

http://arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/Blink

 based on an orginal by H. Barragan for the Wiring i/o board
 This example code is in the public domain. */
int ledPin =  13;    // LED connected to digital pin 13
// The setup() method runs once, when the sketch starts
void setup()   {
  // initialize the digital pin as an output:
  pinMode(ledPin, OUTPUT);
}
// the loop() method runs over and over again,
// as long as the Arduino has power
void loop()
{
  digitalWrite(ledPin, HIGH);   // set the LED on
  delay(1000);                  // wait for a second
  digitalWrite(ledPin, LOW);    // set the LED off
  delay(1000);                  // wait for a second
}

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Sadly I couldn’t get the RFID Reader to work which we wanted to do next.

Have you played with any robotics or gadgets like these? I’m pretty interested in them now and I’m curious about what I learn while coming to these hack days.

We wanted to make something out of cowbells but we didn’t get the parts. It’s awesome thinking about how machines work .

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