{"id":1283,"date":"2013-10-19T03:58:49","date_gmt":"2013-10-19T03:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/?p=1283"},"modified":"2016-09-09T09:26:26","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T09:26:26","slug":"what-am-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/2013\/10\/what-am-i\/","title":{"rendered":"What am I?"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the Shanghai Maker carnival I asked “the” Massimo to sign my Arduino (first of many Arduinos). He did and I have to say he is a very nice guy. Was hoping to get some feedback on the serial number and without any prompting he said “this is a collectors item” and when asked said that is was actually number 62,638.<\/p>\n

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Prior to this at the pre-maker carnival party at XinCheJian, while exchanging background information with other party goers, I was about four seconds into my background “grew up with no TV, so had to entertain myself making…” when I was interrupted with “so you are a true geek” and to make this really official – this came from a cultural anthropologist who specialises in maker culture etc!<\/p>\n

So if chasing Massimo for an authograph wasn’t enough proof, then there is an expert opinion to back it up – yep I’m a geek \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At the Shanghai Maker carnival I asked “the” Massimo to sign my Arduino (first of many Arduinos). He did and I have to say he is a very nice guy. Was hoping to get some feedback on the serial number and without any prompting he said “this is a collectors item” and when asked said … Continue reading “What am I?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9,13],"tags":[32,53,68,84],"class_list":["post-1283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about","category-hardware","category-open-source","tag-carnival","tag-maker","tag-shanghai","tag-xinchejian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1322,"href":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283\/revisions\/1322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}