{"id":19006925733,"date":"2013-10-29T17:27:14","date_gmt":"2013-10-30T00:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angichau.com\/blog\/?p=19006925733"},"modified":"2017-10-11T21:43:22","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T04:43:22","slug":"a-light-up-whale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angichau.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/29\/a-light-up-whale\/","title":{"rendered":"a light-up whale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was at <a href=\"http:\/\/fablearn.stanford.edu\/\">FabLearn<\/a> the last couple of days and one of the highlights was definitely the soft circuits workshop I took. Even though we had only a short amount of time, many of us teachers were determined to finish a stuffed animal project that would light up.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my little light-up whale:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angichau.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_0872-375x500.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0872\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-19006925734\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angichau.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_0872-375x500.jpg 375w, http:\/\/www.angichau.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_0872.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The whale was one of the standard patterns given to us and I thought that as a former electrical engineer, I would blast right through it. Ha! Yeah, right! Turns out sewing circuits is a LOT different from breadboard, which my mind is way more used to. I can&#8217;t tell you how many times I had to undo the stitches and start over. <\/p>\n<p>Looking back, I really should have sat down and drawn out the circuit paths before I jumped into sewing. Once I started sewing, I kept forgetting which path was supposed to connect with which side of which component and kept getting myself confused. If I ever do soft circuits with kids, I will definitely insist they do some planning first!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was at FabLearn the last couple of days and one of the highlights was definitely the soft circuits workshop I took. Even though we had only a short amount of time, many of us teachers were determined to finish a stuffed animal project that would light up. Here&#8217;s my little light-up whale: The whale [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19006925733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sewing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angichau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19006925733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angichau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angichau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angichau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angichau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19006925733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.angichau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19006925733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19006925735,"href":"http:\/\/www.angichau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19006925733\/revisions\/19006925735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angichau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19006925733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angichau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19006925733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angichau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19006925733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}