{"id":449,"date":"2012-12-21T02:41:37","date_gmt":"2012-12-21T02:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foothillscommunityworkshop.org\/?p=398"},"modified":"2026-01-30T23:53:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T23:53:07","slug":"december-open-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fcwhack.com\/?p=449","title":{"rendered":"December Open House"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Open House at FCW on Dec 17 was a success.\u00a0 The doors opened at 10AM and there was a steady group of visitors until after 5PM.\u00a0\u00a0 We had food, from doughnuts and sausage biscuits to beans a franks, and, of course …… candy.<\/p>\n

The tours started off in the office\/lounge area, showing the ham station, and the electronics area, which had various microcomputers (ARM, AVR, Propeller, STM) on display as well as an Eggbot printing on ping-pong balls.\u00a0 On the back wall were several masks that Ross had made.\u00a0 The FCW Christmas tree had the usual decorations, but also was decorated with gears, chips, circuit boards, Eggbot ping-pong balls, and 3D printed parts.\u00a0 The big hit in this area was the MAME machine.\u00a0 Though still needing painting and the second set of controls, the various classic arcade games entertained the young and young-at-heart for most of the day.<\/p>\n

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The MAME machine is a big hit<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

The tour then went into the cave, with the first stop being the classroom, where the food was available.\u00a0 Then came the model shop.\u00a0 The railroad was another big hit with Gene running it for most of the day.\u00a0 Also on display there was model making tools and materials used to make scenery.\u00a0 In addition, Gene had a High voltage demonstration, with a Wimshurst machine, an electrometer, and a demonstration of static electricity.<\/p>\n

Continuing down the cave was the machining area.\u00a0 Due partially to safety reasons, the lathe and mill were not demonstrated live.\u00a0 After that was the woodworking area and the CNC router was demonstrated making small engraved cards.<\/p>\n

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One hit was the sleigh that FCW made which was set up with a blue screen for pictures.\u00a0 Kids could sit with Santa in the sleigh and have free pictures made with various backgrounds.\u00a0 Ed did a fantastic job with the photography and had backgrounds for snowy mountains, snowy forest, clouds, the desert, a beach, and the moon.\u00a0 Many kids and a few adults took the opportunity to have pictures made.<\/p>\n

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Santa visits FCW<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

One new member signed up and several other persons expressed interest in joining.\u00a0 All in all, it was a fun day and a great PR opportunity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Open House at FCW on Dec 17 was a success.\u00a0 The doors opened at 10AM and there was a steady group of visitors until after 5PM.\u00a0\u00a0 We had food, from doughnuts and sausage biscuits to beans a franks, and, of course …… candy. The tours started off in the office\/lounge area, showing the ham … Continue reading December Open House<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-fcw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fcwhack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fcwhack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fcwhack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fcwhack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fcwhack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=449"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/fcwhack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":766,"href":"http:\/\/fcwhack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions\/766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fcwhack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fcwhack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fcwhack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}