{"id":1915,"date":"2008-05-05T16:04:38","date_gmt":"2008-05-06T00:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=1915"},"modified":"2008-05-05T16:07:38","modified_gmt":"2008-05-06T00:07:38","slug":"interesting-camper-concept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2008\/05\/05\/interesting-camper-concept\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting camper concept"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/busybeingborn\/2468760326\/\" title=\"A Maker Faire banner by busybeingborn, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/253\/2468760326_fe2f1c1aab_m.jpg\" width=\"198\" height=\"240\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"A Maker Faire banner\" \/><\/a> Yeah, I should&#8217;ve been out hiking yesterday but instead I spent the afternoon gawking at the clever creations at <a href=\"http:\/\/makerfaire.com\/\">Make Faire<\/a>, where wacky do-it-yourselfers get their ya-yas out every year at the San Mateo County Fairgrounds. While there&#8217;s a smattering of annoying Burning Man types using sculpture to make political points you already know by heart, quite a bit of it is frolicsome and zany, and much of it is downright ingenious and practical, like this no-frills fold-down camper, called the Quickup. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/busybeingborn\/2469489750\/\" title=\"Quickup camper by busybeingborn, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3001\/2469489750_12d5deb420_m.jpg\" width=\"180\" class=\"alignleft\" height=\"240\" alt=\"Quickup camper\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/busybeingborn\/2468671107\/\" title=\"Quickup camper, another look by busybeingborn, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2362\/2468671107_c17dd45afa_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\"  alt=\"Quickup camper, another look\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a peek through the back door, and the view from the front. The table folds down and a 7-foot by 4.5-foot bed folds out. It has a little sink, stove and nook for a porta-potty. <\/p>\n<p>I head the guy who made it bragging that it stood up to 80-mph winds. His site&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quickupcamper.com\/\">here<\/a> (more pictures of how it works are there, too). <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.inhabitat.com\/2006\/09\/22\/prefab-friday-quickup-camper\/\">This blog post <\/a>has much more on the designer, Jay Baldwin, who is quite the pioneer on things like this. <\/p>\n<p>More of my Maker Faire pictures are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/busybeingborn\/sets\/72157604902229091\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, I should&#8217;ve been out hiking yesterday but instead I spent the afternoon gawking at the clever creations at Make Faire, where wacky do-it-yourselfers get their ya-yas out every year at the San Mateo County Fairgrounds. While there&#8217;s a smattering&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2008\/05\/05\/interesting-camper-concept\/\">Read the whole thing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[34,108],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}