{"id":97,"date":"2012-01-10T20:52:30","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T20:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antsnest.net\/blog\/?p=97"},"modified":"2012-03-01T10:55:26","modified_gmt":"2012-03-01T10:55:26","slug":"alpha-ufo-module","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antsnest.net\/blog\/?p=97","title":{"rendered":"Alpha UFO Module"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s some quick updates on the Alpha UFO project. I&#8217;ve connected the lighting module to the LED driver module using 8 strands of wire-wrap wire &#8211; this is about the thinnest insulated wire going (yes I know enamelled wire can be thinner, but it&#8217;s much more fiddly to remove the coating).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.antsnest.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/DSC_7906.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-99\" title=\"DSC_7906\" src=\"https:\/\/www.antsnest.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/DSC_7906.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.antsnest.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/DSC_7906.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.antsnest.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/DSC_7906-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.antsnest.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/DSC_7906-447x300.jpg 447w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here the top has been popped back on over the LEDs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.antsnest.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/DSC_7907.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-98\" title=\"DSC_7907\" src=\"https:\/\/www.antsnest.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/DSC_7907.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.antsnest.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/DSC_7907.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.antsnest.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/DSC_7907-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.antsnest.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/DSC_7907-447x300.jpg 447w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve shot a short video to show the modules in action &#8211; for now I&#8217;ve just let the wires dangle out between the saucer halves. The wires could all be bunched together and fed down a much smaller plastic tube than in my original attempt.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Alpha UFO Lighting Module\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/34858351?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s some quick updates on the Alpha UFO project. I&#8217;ve connected the lighting module to the LED driver module using 8 strands of wire-wrap wire &#8211; this is about the thinnest insulated wire going (yes I know enamelled wire can &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.antsnest.net\/blog\/?p=97\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,5,10,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alphaufo","category-electronics","category-lighting","category-modelling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antsnest.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antsnest.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antsnest.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antsnest.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antsnest.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.antsnest.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106,"href":"https:\/\/www.antsnest.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions\/106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antsnest.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antsnest.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antsnest.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}