{"id":192,"date":"2008-09-05T08:47:20","date_gmt":"2008-09-05T15:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/?p=192"},"modified":"2022-12-27T18:01:39","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T02:01:39","slug":"bre-pettis-living-the-diy-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/bre-pettis-living-the-diy-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"Bre Pettis | Living the DIY Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/mightyohm.com\/files\/flickr\/2829798704_6d636a2eaa.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"232\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bre Pettis (formerly of <a title=\"Make: Podcast\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.makezine.com\/podcast\/\">Make Magazine&#8217;s Weekend Projects<\/a>) is hosting a new TV show that premieres on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.history.com\">History Channel<\/a> later this month.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I\u2019m really excited.\u00a0 I just found out that my TV show pilot, called <strong>History Hacker<\/strong> is going to air  on the History Channel on <strong>Friday, September 26th at 9PM<\/strong>. This photograph, which is also the current header of my blog was shot during filming of the show. I\u2019m on set in my infinity workshop and that\u2019s a decent sized Tesla coil.<\/p>\n<p>Over the course of the show I learn about the inventors and inventions of the past and then hack the inventions together out of stuff in my closet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>History Hacker<br \/>\nFriday, September 26, 2008<br \/>\n9PM<br \/>\nThe History Channel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bre also has a new <a href=\"http:\/\/brepettis.com\/blog\/\">blog<\/a> where you can check out what he&#8217;s up to, including his involvement with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\">Etsy<\/a> and uber-hackerspace <a href=\"http:\/\/nycresistor.com\">NYC Resistor<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/brepettis.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/04\/history-hacker-history-channel\/\">Bre Pettis | Living the DIY Dream<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bre Pettis (formerly of Make Magazine&#8217;s Weekend Projects) is hosting a new TV show that premieres on the History Channel later this month. I\u2019m really excited.\u00a0 I just found out that my TV show pilot, called History Hacker is going to air on the History Channel on Friday, September 26th at 9PM. This photograph, which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/bre-pettis-living-the-diy-dream\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bre Pettis | Living the DIY Dream<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-diy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pioCd-36","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":232,"url":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/blogs-blogs-blogs\/","url_meta":{"origin":192,"position":0},"title":"Blogs, blogs, blogs","author":"Jeff","date":"September 12, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Some interesting electronics\/microcontroller\/hacker themed blogs I'm reading these days: My favorites: NYC Resistor - Definitely the most interesting hackerspace in the US right now.\u00a0 Updates almost daily.\u00a0 I stand in awe of how prolific these guys\/girls are, it seems like they are pushing the envelope of DIY every week.\u00a0 This\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Electronics&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Electronics","link":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/category\/electronics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1748,"url":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/diy-tivo-ir-blaster\/","url_meta":{"origin":192,"position":1},"title":"DIY TiVo IR Blaster","author":"Jeff","date":"April 27, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Recently I discovered that our local cable provider will soon be discontinuing analog cable service for most channels. \u00a0 Because of this they are forcing encouraging customers to get new cable boxes and upgrade to digital cable. 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