{"id":221,"date":"2012-05-15T14:39:46","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T14:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/katieluper.com\/?p=221"},"modified":"2012-05-15T14:39:46","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T14:39:46","slug":"whoops-the-semester-got-away-from-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/katieluper.com\/?p=221","title":{"rendered":"Whoops! The semester got away from me"},"content":{"rendered":"

As usual, the semester got busy and the poor blog got neglected. I’m working on a longer post on my Arduino coin sorter using eddy currents, but I wanted to share a few things right now.<\/p>\n

In early 2008, I bought a first generation Apple Time Capsule<\/a> for use as a wireless router and backup system. Minus a few corrupted sparsebundles, the Time Capsule has served us well. However, I kept running across post after post on technology blogs about Time Capsules dying, so I have been increasingly careful to have other backups. Over the weekend, my Time Capsule went kaput. Upon being plugged in, the light came on for a second, it flickered, and then shut down. Being 4 years old, it was way out of warranty and so after buying another (I know that there are other solutions, but I like this one) I decided to rip apart the old one.<\/p>\n

I’ve never had an Apple product out of warranty that I could just dissect and so this was a new experience. I consulted a few blogs, used a hair dryer to peel off the rubber bottom, and went to work. Once I unwrapped the power supply, the problem was pretty quickly evident. At least two of the electrolytic capacitors were bulging and leaking orange goo.<\/p>\n

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I’m planning to try and replace them just for the experience. My philosophy is that it’s already dead, so I can’t break anything that isn’t already broken.<\/p>\n

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As a quick shout-out, Jeff Keyzer (@mightyohm<\/a>) tweeted about a great ECE student’s blog called Needs More Lasers<\/a>. I really enjoyed the posts so far so check it out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As usual, the semester got busy and the poor blog got neglected. I’m working on a longer post on my Arduino coin sorter using eddy currents, but I wanted to share a few things right now. In early 2008, I bought a first generation Apple Time Capsule for use as a wireless router and backup … <\/p>\n

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