{"id":8881,"date":"2011-06-07T03:00:18","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T08:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=8881"},"modified":"2011-06-07T03:00:18","modified_gmt":"2011-06-07T08:00:18","slug":"diy-electronic-curmudgeonry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/8881","title":{"rendered":"DIY Electronic Curmudgeonry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2011\/06\/06\/howto-make-a-joule-t.html\">HOWTO make a Joule Thief and get all the power you&#8217;ve paid for<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This wee beastie is a Joule Thief, a device whose sole purpose in life is to exhaust the power remaining in batteries that are too weak to do anything else. Simply build these and affix them to your &#8220;dead&#8221; batteries and thrill to the spectacle of the power <em>you&#8217;ve paid for<\/em> being available to you, right down to the last dribble.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Then go out on the porch, shake your fist, and tell those damn electrons to get off your lawn.  If you want to skip the curmudgeonly comment, you can go <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instructables.com\/id\/Make-a-Joule-Thief\/\">straight to the instructable<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(I use rechargeables, so I have no need of an electron-marrow-sucking device)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOWTO make a Joule Thief and get all the power you&#8217;ve paid for This wee beastie is a Joule Thief, a device whose sole purpose in life is to exhaust the power remaining in batteries that are too weak to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/8881\">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":[39,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-silly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8881","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=8881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}