{"id":3026,"date":"2014-10-10T09:23:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-09T22:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2014\/10\/10\/hacker-with-the-knack-does-well-working-for-jpl\/"},"modified":"2014-10-10T09:23:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T22:23:00","slug":"hacker-with-the-knack-does-well-working-for-jpl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2014\/10\/10\/hacker-with-the-knack-does-well-working-for-jpl\/","title":{"rendered":"Hacker with The Knack Does Well, Working for JPL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"248\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9EQXhEW4Gl8?rel=0\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> <b>Wow. This guy has a really inspirational Knack story. He welded (with coat hangers!) a sidecar onto his bike when he was a kid. He majored in Physics and Theater. He did all kinds of hardware and software hacks. He plays a Theravin in a band. He now flies spacecraft for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>And Congratulations to Peter Parker, VK3YE, for having one of his ingenious hacks picked up by Hackaday:<\/b><br \/> <b><a href=\"http:\/\/hackaday.com\/2014\/10\/06\/dusty-junk-bin-downconverter-receives-fm-on-an-am-radio\/\">http:\/\/hackaday.com\/2014\/10\/06\/dusty-junk-bin-downconverter-receives-fm-on-an-am-radio\/<\/a><\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>Thanks Hackaday! And Happy Tenth Birthday to You! <\/b><\/p>\n<p> Our book: &#8220;SolderSmoke &#8212; Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm\">http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm<\/a> Our coffee mugs, T-Shirts, bumper stickers: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke\">http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke<\/a> Our Book Store: <a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20\">http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow. This guy has a really inspirational Knack story. He welded (with coat hangers!) a sidecar onto his bike when he was a kid. He majored in Physics and Theater. He did all kinds of hardware and software hacks. He plays a Theravin in a band. He now flies spacecraft for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2014\/10\/10\/hacker-with-the-knack-does-well-working-for-jpl\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hacker with The Knack Does Well, Working for JPL&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103,36,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knack-stories","category-parker-peter","category-space-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}