{"id":770,"date":"2009-07-01T02:06:17","date_gmt":"2009-07-01T09:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.iamron.com\/?p=770"},"modified":"2009-07-01T16:07:21","modified_gmt":"2009-07-01T23:07:21","slug":"this-guy-can-build-anything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.iamron.com\/great-people\/this-guy-can-build-anything\/","title":{"rendered":"This guy can build anything"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seems <a href=\"http:\/\/woodgears.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">this guy<\/a> could build anything he wants.  <a href=\"http:\/\/woodgears.ca\/shelves\/testing_strength.jpg  \" target=\"_blank\">Clearly<\/a>, he&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.iamron.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/einstein_tongue.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">genius<\/a>.  I&#8217;ve poked around his website for many months now, coming back occasionally to remind myself how cool he is.  Each time I visit, I&#8217;m amazed at the creativity and industry I come across on this site, from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sentex.net\/~mwandel\/tech\/scanner.html\" target=\"_blank\">digital cameras made of flatbed scanner parts<\/a>, to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sentex.net\/~mwandel\/marbles\/lego-machine.html\" target=\"_blank\">lego marble machines<\/a>, to <a href=\"http:\/\/woodgears.ca\/projects.html\" target=\"_blank\">wood furniture<\/a>, to <a href=\"http:\/\/woodgears.ca\/box_joint\/jig.html\" target=\"_blank\">shop tools<\/a>.  Wow, what an inspiration.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been wanting to make some furniture from the plans he&#8217;s posted, particularly the <a href=\"http:\/\/woodgears.ca\/napping_bench\/  index.html\" target=\"_blank\">napping bench<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/woodgears.ca\/daybed\/build.html\" target=\"_blank\">couch\/day bed<\/a>, and heck &#8211; why not a few <a href=\"http:\/\/woodgears.ca\/milk_crate\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">milk crates<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/woodgears.ca\/kitchen_chairs\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">kitchen chairs<\/a>, or even a <a href=\"http:\/\/woodgears.ca\/queen_size_bed\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">queen size bed<\/a>.  In a world where the equivalent is crappier, plastic-ier, and expensive-ier, how can you look at his stuff and <em>not<\/em> want it at least a little?<\/p>\n<p>FUN!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seems this guy could build anything he wants. Clearly, he&#8217;s a genius. I&#8217;ve poked around his website for many months now, coming back occasionally to remind myself how cool he is. Each time I visit, I&#8217;m amazed at the creativity and industry I come across on this site, from digital cameras made of flatbed scanner [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[20,4,6],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p20FV9-cq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iamron.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iamron.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iamron.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iamron.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iamron.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=770"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iamron.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":781,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iamron.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions\/781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iamron.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iamron.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iamron.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}