{"id":15,"date":"2007-07-27T01:26:19","date_gmt":"2007-07-27T05:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.etotheipiplusone.net\/?page_id=15"},"modified":"2025-03-10T01:27:41","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T05:27:41","slug":"glowy-glasses","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.etotheipiplusone.net\/?page_id=15","title":{"rendered":"Glowy-glasses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 507px; height: 381px;\" src=\"\/pics\/glassen.jpg\" alt=\"Glowing safety glasses!\" width=\"507\" height=\"381\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Some time after the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usfirst.org\">FIRST Robotics<\/a> tournament in 2006, I found myself left with two pairs of safety goggles. I kept one in the build lab, where it got throughly smacked and scratched up, including a huge gouge from a piece caught in the miter saw. The other, however, was pristine.  As the 2007 tournament rolled around, I thought It Would Be Really Cool If I put some LEDs in them, to make them glow, like expensive computer parts.<\/p>\n<p>Thus began my new life philosophy &#8211; that all clear things, of glass or of plastic, must have glowy things.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Specs<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> 2x &#8220;Unbranded EBay 100-pack&#8221; superbright RGB LEDs, 4-wire 8000mcd<\/li>\n<li>2x lithium 2025 primary cells jammed in a 2032 cell holder, dug out from a printer board<\/li>\n<li>1x SPDT switch<\/li>\n<li>Some inconspicuous wire.<\/li>\n<li>A zip tie<\/li>\n<li>Some glue<\/li>\n<li>Safety goggles. I managed to get the all-clear type, which works better.<\/li>\n<li>29,700 pounds of Charles Mojo<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some time after the FIRST Robotics tournament in 2006, I found myself left with two pairs of safety goggles. I kept one in the build lab, where it got throughly smacked and scratched up, including a huge gouge from a piece caught in the miter saw. The other, however, was pristine. As the 2007 tournament [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":14,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-15","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etotheipiplusone.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etotheipiplusone.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etotheipiplusone.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etotheipiplusone.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etotheipiplusone.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.etotheipiplusone.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5894,"href":"https:\/\/www.etotheipiplusone.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions\/5894"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etotheipiplusone.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etotheipiplusone.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}