{"id":99,"date":"2008-02-12T08:16:31","date_gmt":"2008-02-12T16:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/05\/circuit-design\/"},"modified":"2008-02-12T08:36:41","modified_gmt":"2008-02-12T16:36:41","slug":"circuit-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/12\/circuit-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Circuit Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\">So, I&#8217;m an electrical engineer by degree, software programmer by day, and circuit designer by weekend.  Jon has been spending weekends over at our place to work on his <a href=\"http:\/\/jonmaque.blogspot.com\/2008\/01\/okay-all-so-which-one-would-you-be-more.html\">upcoming sculptures<\/a>&#8211;which are going to be &#8220;high-tech&#8221;.  We had so much fun making <a href=\"http:\/\/jonmaque.blogspot.com\/2008\/01\/mirel.html\">Angie&#8217;s Christmas present<\/a> that we decided to keep it up (and go a little more complicated).<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/breadboard_big.jpg\" title=\"Breadboard\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/breadboard_small.jpg\" alt=\"Breadboard (Small)\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Well, I got the complicated part right.  It really isn&#8217;t as bad as it looks.  Anyway, I wired this up as our prototype to test the circuit before I start soldering anything.  You can click on the image to get a closer view.  Everything (surprisingly) worked on the first try, but I had to tweak some resistor values to get the LED brightness we wanted, and I still have to write the software for the microcontroller&#8230; I won&#8217;t bore you with the details.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">I&#8217;ll post again after we&#8217;ve done some more work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I&#8217;m an electrical engineer by degree, software programmer by day, and circuit designer by weekend. Jon has been spending weekends over at our place to work on his upcoming sculptures&#8211;which are going to be &#8220;high-tech&#8221;. We had so much fun making Angie&#8217;s Christmas present that we decided to keep it up (and go a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8WrW-1B","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}