{"id":609,"date":"2016-03-15T09:19:44","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T14:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable2016\/?p=609"},"modified":"2016-03-15T09:36:53","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T14:36:53","slug":"weekly-update-1-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable2016\/2016\/03\/15\/weekly-update-1-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Update #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Progress has been slow to start, as expected. Due to exterior commitments with my personal prop business, the armor building has to be pushed back to next week.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>However, this past week was spent working on orienting myself with all the various sensors and outputs I will be using. My light strips are GRB and RGBW respectively and cause problems until I found the differences. Servos worked exactly as planned and are easily able to be scaled off of a few pins. The DC motor however, works but does not have near the power output I was looking for. The plan is to add a separate battery specifically for the engines with a higher voltage as the engines wont be as active as the other outputs and require a higher V output.<\/p>\n<p>This week will be extensive patterning and carrying into spring break with be a majority of my armor work and fabrication.<\/p>\n<p>Also: My contacts for the replica came in this Monday and I did a test fit.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ol9X41Dd-yc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Progress has been slow to start, as expected. Due to exterior commitments with my personal prop business, the armor building has to be pushed back to next week. &nbsp; However, this past week was spent working on orienting myself with all the various sensors and outputs I will be using. My light strips are GRB [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609"}],"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\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":616,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions\/616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}