Burhop Is Technically Incorrect
Most of us that follow any sort of on-line CAD information know Mark Burhop by his second life avatar. Mark of course works for Solid Edge, building relationships with vendor partners. Well, did you know Mark has a son, and his son is bound for even more fame and glory than his father?
Zach Burhop was recently featured in C/Net’s blog called Technically Incorrect, in which the author, Chris Matyszczyk (likely pronounced “Matt is sick”) writes with a sense of irony about various off-beat technical stories, making it a must-read blog for me. One of his recent stories was about Zach’s Christmas tree. The third sentence of his article I fear has some sort of unrelated story behind it, because it’s so out of place in this otherwise geekily heart-warming message about a young feller and his tree.
A Christmas tree is a seasonal but possibly odd subject for a tech blog, until you realize that the lights on the Christmas tree are driven by an Arduino (mini DIY computer on a cracker-sized circuit board) using several ornaments 3D printed on a Solidoodle, some of which were designed in Solid Edge. And then it makes perfect sense.
Zach’s story also showed up at Solidoodle’s blog, but I think it originated on Zach’s own site ZachBurhop.com, or at least from his YouTube channel. If you like to tinker, Zach has lots of stuff to check out. I’m sure Mark’s very proud of Zach and his story getting picked up by C/Net. Congrats!
Congrats to Mark for his interwebs friendly progeny. I, on the other hand, am seriously thinking of creating a Twitter account called Dumb Ass Things my Son Says.
LOL! That is great. I’m surprised you found it!
Yes, the whole family is proud of him. It is pretty funny when 73 year old ladies (his grandmother) post stories about Arduino and 3D printing to Facebook.
He does a lot of crazy projects… this is one of the more subdued ones. His sister is collecting quotes and other stories about him so that when he is famous she will have a good “tell all” book 🙂
Catchy title. It hooked me in. I just couldn’t believe that Burhop would, or could, be “technically incorrect” and I had to read for myself how it was possible.