{"id":9372,"date":"2011-11-03T08:52:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-02T21:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/11\/03\/recreational-engineering\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T02:25:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T16:25:38","slug":"recreational-engineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/11\/03\/recreational-engineering\/","title":{"rendered":"Recreational Engineering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/1024-VMakerFaire-MakerFaire-NEW-YORK-SCIENCE-TECHNOLOGY-EDUCATION_full_380.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 380px; height: 253px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/1024-VMakerFaire-MakerFaire-NEW-YORK-SCIENCE-TECHNOLOGY-EDUCATION_full_380.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5670691732025220882\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">I like that term! &#8220;Amateur Engineering&#8221; always seemed to sound kind of scary, conjuring up images of bridges that don&#8217;t quite stay in place. &#8220;Recreational Engineering&#8221; has a nicer, less ominous ring to it. I found this phrase at the end of this newspaper article on the Maker movement:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/Innovation\/Tech\/2011\/1101\/Maker-Faire-Mad-science-for-the-masses\/%28page%29\/2\">http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/Innovation\/Tech\/2011\/1101\/Maker-Faire-Mad-science-for-the-masses\/%28page%29\/2<br \/><\/a><\/span><\/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>I like that term! &#8220;Amateur Engineering&#8221; always seemed to sound kind of scary, conjuring up images of bridges that don&#8217;t quite stay in place. &#8220;Recreational Engineering&#8221; has a nicer, less ominous ring to it. I found this phrase at the end of this newspaper article on the Maker movement: http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/Innovation\/Tech\/2011\/1101\/Maker-Faire-Mad-science-for-the-masses\/%28page%29\/2 Our book: &#8220;SolderSmoke &#8212; Global &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/11\/03\/recreational-engineering\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Recreational Engineering&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-make"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9372","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=9372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9374,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9372\/revisions\/9374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}