{"id":12663,"date":"2012-10-26T03:00:48","date_gmt":"2012-10-26T08:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=12663"},"modified":"2012-10-26T03:00:48","modified_gmt":"2012-10-26T08:00:48","slug":"well-do-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/12663","title":{"rendered":"We&#039;ll Do That!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2012\/10\/hackadays-portal-gun-and-magnetic-levitation\/\">Portal Gun and Magnetic Levitation<\/a><\/p>\n<p><object class=\"embed\" width=\"425\" height=\"264\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" \ndata=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/LZkApleQQpk?fs=1\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/LZkApleQQpk?fs=1\" \/><em>You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video<\/em><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Rhett doesn&#8217;t <em>quite<\/em> get to the point where he explains what&#8217;s going on in the video, since the levitation mechanism for the system is only hinted at, but they talk of the coil, so it&#8217;s almost certainly a servo-mechanism adjusting the coil current, as Rhett guesses.<\/p>\n<p>Watching this, I was thinking that it would be nest to take one of those globes and cover it with a pattern to make it look like a Beryllium Sphere from <em>Galaxy Quest<\/em>.  Never give up!  Never surrender!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portal Gun and Magnetic Levitation You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Rhett doesn&#8217;t quite get to the point where he explains what&#8217;s going on in the video, since the levitation mechanism for the system &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/12663\">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":[39,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}