{"id":172,"date":"2014-10-24T12:40:25","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T12:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/3d.rayharwood.com\/?p=172"},"modified":"2014-10-24T12:43:32","modified_gmt":"2014-10-24T12:43:32","slug":"flashing-rings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/3d.rayharwood.com\/?p=172","title":{"rendered":"Flashing Rings!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GEMMA is flashing rings!<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday afternoon I tried my hand at soldering, trying to attach power, ground, and data to one of the NeoPixel assemblies (16 LED).\u00a0 I totally suck at soldering!<\/p>\n<p>Last night Franklin stepped in and soldered wires to the second (24 LED) and to the GEMMA &#8212; an Arduino-based controller the size of a quarter.\u00a0 Franklin then connected it all up on a small breadboard.<\/p>\n<p>This morning I took a USB extension from a charging plug over to the GEMMA&#8217;s mini-USB connector, and magic happened!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3d.rayharwood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/20141024_122335199_iOS.mov\">Click<\/a> to watch video.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3d.rayharwood.com\/?attachment_id=174\">Click<\/a> to go to video clip &#8211; Quicktime MOV format, will work fine for iPad, iPhone, Macs; also Windows users, if you have Quicktime installed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GEMMA is flashing rings!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[28],"tags":[29,31,30],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-npgm","tag-gemma","tag-neopixel","tag-soldering"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3d.rayharwood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/20141024_122318919_iOS.jpg?fit=3264%2C2448","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p76pQa-2M","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/3d.rayharwood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/3d.rayharwood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/3d.rayharwood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/3d.rayharwood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/3d.rayharwood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/3d.rayharwood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177,"href":"http:\/\/3d.rayharwood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions\/177"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/3d.rayharwood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/3d.rayharwood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/3d.rayharwood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/3d.rayharwood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}