{"id":1079,"date":"2012-04-03T22:23:24","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T01:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.generaleccentric.net\/?p=1079"},"modified":"2012-12-05T12:16:43","modified_gmt":"2012-12-05T15:16:43","slug":"coming-soon-average-clock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.generaleccentric.net\/?p=1079","title":{"rendered":"Coming soon: Average Clock"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1080\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1080\" style=\"width: 256px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.generaleccentric.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/IMG_0844.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[1079]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1080 \" style=\"border-image: initial; border-width: 1px; border-color: black; border-style: solid;\" title=\"Average Clock submodule\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.generaleccentric.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/IMG_0844-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"256\" height=\"192\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1080\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This prototype module uses one MAX7219 to drive two clock displays. Size is 6 x 10 cm.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been working with the freeware version of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.ca\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;ved=0CDkQFjAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cadsoftusa.com%2F&amp;ei=DaN7T5gjovXSAb2F_IAG&amp;usg=AFQjCNGPkUWNMDaMFcZm11VlafsTOeTtYg&amp;sig2=Cm9jdrbqWWRvlSGptnITKg\">Cadsoft Eagle<\/a> and learning how to make my own printed circuit boards, in preparation for a new work in the \u201cTechnology of Good Intentions\u201d series: Average Clock. I won&#8217;t go into the details, but the workings involve an extraordinary amount of electronic circuitry, so I elected to design it in submodules, using very thin (.25 mm!) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goldmine-elec-products.com\/prodinfo.asp?number=G17455\">double-sided printed circuit boards<\/a>. After etching, I coat the copper with tin, and the end result looks Soviet-military. I quite like it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been working with the freeware version of Cadsoft Eagle and learning how to make my own printed circuit boards, in preparation for a new work in the \u201cTechnology of Good Intentions\u201d series: Average Clock. I won&#8217;t go into the details, but the workings involve an extraordinary amount of electronic circuitry, so I elected to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.generaleccentric.net\/?p=1079\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Coming soon: Average Clock<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[102,55],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-1079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-the-technology-of-good-intentions","tag-arduino"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.generaleccentric.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.generaleccentric.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.generaleccentric.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.generaleccentric.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.generaleccentric.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1079"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blog.generaleccentric.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1280,"href":"https:\/\/blog.generaleccentric.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions\/1280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.generaleccentric.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.generaleccentric.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.generaleccentric.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}