{"id":1004,"date":"2016-04-17T23:47:36","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T04:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable2016\/?p=1004"},"modified":"2016-04-17T23:47:36","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T04:47:36","slug":"weekly-update-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable2016\/2016\/04\/17\/weekly-update-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable2016\/files\/2016\/04\/IMG_20160417_224828.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1006\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1006\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable2016\/files\/2016\/04\/IMG_20160417_224828-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20160417_224828\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable2016\/files\/2016\/04\/IMG_20160417_224828-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable2016\/files\/2016\/04\/IMG_20160417_224828-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Accomplishments: <\/b>I finished the 555 chip circuit for controlling the servo motor and it works reasonably well. I also completed sewing the orange EL wire into an outer square. For the purple chasing EL wire I looked at a lot of designs before settling on the word \u2018magic\u2019 in Arabic script. I traced the letters in chalk on the bottom of the carpet (twice, because I forgot it would be mirrored on top) and started sewing that EL wire in also.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Problems or Issues: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I\u2019m concerned about how the POV kit will look on the carpet &#8211; will it be possible to wave the carpet so the design can be seen? I need to experiment with it some more. Also time is definitely a factor now.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Week Plan: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sew, sew, sew! And solder the servo\/555 to the prototyping board once that comes in the mail.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Accomplishments: I finished the 555 chip circuit for controlling the servo motor and it works reasonably well. I also completed sewing the orange EL wire into an outer square. For the purple chasing EL wire I looked at a lot of designs before settling on the word \u2018magic\u2019 in Arabic script. I traced the letters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1004"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1008,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004\/revisions\/1008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}