{"id":653,"date":"2009-03-23T00:02:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-23T05:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teknevision.com\/extant2\/2009\/03\/mechanisms-midterm-zoetrope.html"},"modified":"2009-03-23T00:02:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-23T05:02:00","slug":"mechanisms-midterm-zoetrope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teknevision.com\/extant\/2009\/03\/mechanisms-midterm-zoetrope.html","title":{"rendered":"Mechanisms: Midterm: Zoetrope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.teknevision.com\/ITP\/MECHANISMS\/mech_midterm_zoetrope1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.teknevision.com\/ITP\/MECHANISMS\/mech_midterm_zoetrope.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.teknevision.com\/ITP\/MECHANISMS\/mech_midterm_fan_parts.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.teknevision.com\/ITP\/MECHANISMS\/mech_midterm_fan_motor.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>For the Mechanisms midterm, I created a zoetrope that used a motor to rotate it. I wanted to make a working model of an idea I have for the final. One idea I had was to use a servo motor to make the zoetrope just go back and forth instead of all the way around. I was thinking to integrate a sensor, but decided against it after coming into some problems.<\/p>\n<p>I finally decided on using an AC driven motor from a small single speed fan. The fan was already wired and had a switch. Unfortunately, as I was soldering extensions for both the switch and plug &#8211; I melted TWO switches. I know non-lead solder is safer, but man is it harder to work with.<\/p>\n<p>I was also able to find a wooden bowl and lazy Susan that fit perfectly together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the Mechanisms midterm, I created a zoetrope that used a motor to rotate it. I wanted to make a working model of an idea I have for the final. One idea I had was to use a servo motor to make the zoetrope just go back and forth instead of all the way around. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-itp","category-mechanisms-and-things-that-move"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teknevision.com\/extant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teknevision.com\/extant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teknevision.com\/extant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teknevision.com\/extant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teknevision.com\/extant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.teknevision.com\/extant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teknevision.com\/extant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teknevision.com\/extant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teknevision.com\/extant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}