{"id":272,"date":"2012-08-07T13:56:49","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T13:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/katieluper.com\/?p=272"},"modified":"2012-09-16T01:08:50","modified_gmt":"2012-09-16T01:08:50","slug":"ice-cube-tube-clock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/katieluper.com\/?p=272","title":{"rendered":"Ice Cube Tube Clock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I ordered the Adafruit.com <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adafruit.com\/products\/194\">Ice Cube Tube Clock<\/a> for a fun project to complete between semesters. The kit uses an old vacuum tube as a display, beside is a picture where I&#8217;m testing it to make sure it&#8217;s real ;). Well, I couldn&#8217;t resist getting into it the other weekend and so I started methodically soldering. Then I came upon the capacitor\/pad from heck! It just wouldn&#8217;t solder. The solder kept blobbing up on top of the pad and I tried everything to make it work. I asked around on Twitter and the consensus was to clean the leads and the pads, apply some flux and then try again. I have my final in signals this week and then I&#8217;m going to be on vacation, but when I get back, I&#8217;m going to conquer this beast.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, Fourier series and transforms are my new best friends. We&#8217;re getting to know each other quite well.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I ordered the Adafruit.com Ice Cube Tube Clock for a fun project to complete between semesters. The kit uses an old vacuum tube as a display, beside is a picture where I&#8217;m testing it to make sure it&#8217;s real ;). Well, I couldn&#8217;t resist getting into it the other weekend and so I started methodically &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/katieluper.com\/?p=272\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ice Cube Tube Clock&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/katieluper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/katieluper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/katieluper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katieluper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katieluper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/katieluper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":298,"href":"https:\/\/katieluper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions\/298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/katieluper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katieluper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katieluper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}