Sincerely Inc. recently hosted our first Make-a-Thon. Similar in nature to a hack-a-thon, except that we wanted to make sure everyone in the company could participate.

Each team had the opportunity to discuss ideas before the event, and we officially kicked off the event on Thursday at noon. JJ Ford and myself teamed up, along with Zain Ali for some kick ass design work.

I wanted to try something a little different for Halloween this year, and I’ve been looking to get my hands dirty with more arduino hacking projects.

Of course, I’m not the first person to consider hacking a pumpkin so I took to the internet for some inspiration.

One late evening at the office, myself and a few coworkers realized our office was definitely missing something. But what? We had a kitchen, a developer room, fantastic views and great culture. Of course, when we put our minds to it the answer was so clear – a rock climbing wall.

So, on a whim I found a tape measure and sketched up some plans for the new addition. We decided to turn the post shown below into our wall.

Now as it turned out, the concrete posts are actually in place to wrap the support beam inside.