{"id":279,"date":"2014-04-02T18:07:04","date_gmt":"2014-04-02T18:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/projects\/?p=279"},"modified":"2014-04-02T18:07:04","modified_gmt":"2014-04-02T18:07:04","slug":"hurry-up-and-wait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/projects\/2014\/04\/02\/hurry-up-and-wait\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurry up and wait&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unfortunately, not much progress has been made this week.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve ordered some additional Flexinol in longer lengths and I can&#8217;t really do any additional tests until it arrives.<\/p>\n<p>In the mean time, I have purchased smaller gauge music wire that I think will work well for the spring mechanism.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve also done some research on how I can run the Flexinol using an Arduino:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/projects\/files\/2014\/04\/FlexinolActuatorWire.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-280\" alt=\"FlexinolActuatorWire\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/projects\/files\/2014\/04\/FlexinolActuatorWire.jpg\" width=\"576\" height=\"546\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/projects\/files\/2014\/04\/FlexinolActuatorWire.jpg 576w, https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/projects\/files\/2014\/04\/FlexinolActuatorWire-300x284.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/projects\/files\/2014\/04\/FlexinolActuatorWire-316x300.jpg 316w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a>I also assembled a more complete presentation on the installation:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/projects\/files\/2014\/04\/Project3.pdf\">Project3<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unfortunately, not much progress has been made this week.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve ordered some additional Flexinol in longer lengths and I can&#8217;t really do any additional tests until it arrives. In the mean time, I have purchased smaller gauge music wire that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/projects\/2014\/04\/02\/hurry-up-and-wait\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions\/282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}