{"id":1166,"date":"2011-09-07T13:40:09","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T18:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikew.ca\/wp\/?p=1166"},"modified":"2025-01-13T00:37:08","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T00:37:08","slug":"maker-wannabee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/?p=1166","title":{"rendered":"Maker wannabee"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I did do a couple of actual, for reals, hardware things while I was on vacation, which for anyone who knows me has got to be pretty surprising :-). The first was to put together a little Arduino (actually Freeduino) board:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/arduino-rotated.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/arduino-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3005\" title=\"arduino\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/arduino-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/arduino-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/arduino-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/arduino-rotated.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have vague plans to take this plus a DAC and produce a midi to CV converter, something like <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.makezine.com\/archive\/2009\/01\/arduino-based-16bit-midicv-converte.html\">this<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The other project was more prosaic, but probably more useful: I replaced the lawn light outside GCW. Really, this was just removing the old bits, repainting the post, then putting in a new light sensor and headpiece. The result actually looks pretty good:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/lamp-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3007\" title=\"lamp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/lamp-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/lamp-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/lamp-rotated.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/lamp-closeup-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3010\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/lamp-closeup-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/lamp-closeup-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/lamp-closeup-rotated.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, nothing earthshaking there, but there&#8217;s nothing like a couple of successes to refuel your interest in making things again. Anybody want to help build an analog synthesizer?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did do a couple of actual, for reals, hardware things while I was on vacation, which for anyone who knows me has got to be pretty surprising :-). The first was to put together a little Arduino (actually Freeduino) board: I have vague plans to take this plus a DAC and produce a midi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10],"tags":[63],"class_list":["post-1166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mcq","category-tech","tag-hardware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1166"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3012,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166\/revisions\/3012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}