{"id":322,"date":"2012-12-10T21:25:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T21:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/2012\/12\/arduino\/"},"modified":"2012-12-10T21:25:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-10T21:25:00","slug":"arduino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/2012\/12\/arduino\/","title":{"rendered":"Arduino"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mum bought this for my nephew for Christmas.\u00a0 It looks fun so I bought a kit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arduino.cc\/\">http:\/\/www.arduino.cc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I had a play for a little while and came up with a button that when pressed plays out SOS on a red LED.\u00a0 I suspect I am not the first to try this, but it looks interesting and the possibilities are enormous.\u00a0 I initially had problems because in the dim light of my sitting room I had plugged the 5V lead in to the 0V (GND) hole. But I got there.<\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-td8ABOJ7p3E\/UMZSf6nsgdI\/AAAAAAAAR3A\/EJNRijt_7Hw\/s1600\/2012-12-10+21.15.30.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"240\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-td8ABOJ7p3E\/UMZSf6nsgdI\/AAAAAAAAR3A\/EJNRijt_7Hw\/s320\/2012-12-10+21.15.30.jpg\" width=\"320\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>My masterpiece<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>I&#8217;m still not *quite* sure why I bought this, but if\/when I make a go of going it alone in Primary school eduction it might make a fun little project.<\/p>\n<p>This is the board I have:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arduino.cc\/en\/Main\/arduinoBoardUno\">http:\/\/www.arduino.cc\/en\/Main\/arduinoBoardUno<\/a><\/p>\n<p>All purchased as a kit from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthshineelectronics.com\/\">www.earthshineelectronics.com<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mum bought this for my nephew for Christmas.\u00a0 It looks fun so I bought a kit. http:\/\/www.arduino.cc I had a play for a little while and came up with a button that when pressed plays out SOS on a red LED.\u00a0 I suspect I am not the first to try this, but it looks interesting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/2012\/12\/arduino\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Arduino<\/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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}