{"id":595,"date":"2014-07-15T14:10:52","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T14:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.vwlowen.co.uk\/?p=595"},"modified":"2014-07-15T14:10:52","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T14:10:52","slug":"another-project-bites-the-dust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/?p=595","title":{"rendered":"Another Project Bites the Dust!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been racking my brains (or what&#8217;s left of them) for a new electronics project and had more-or less settled on a simpler version of my <a href=\"http:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/arduino\/camera\/camera.htm\" target=\"_blank\">camera intervalometer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I started costing the parts:<br \/>\n 5-way Navigation Switch (with legend): \u00a320.00<br \/>\n 2-stage push switch (for focus &#038; shutter): Unobtainable.<br \/>\n ATmega328 microcontroller &#038; supporting parts: \u00a35.00 ish<br \/>\n Enclosure:  \u00a35.00<br \/>\n etc etc.<\/p>\n<p>I then came across this little item on ebay for \u00a314.49 including postage:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.vwlowen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/remote1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.vwlowen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/remote1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"remote\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-598\" srcset=\"http:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/remote1-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/remote1.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Very often, we build things ourselves because commercially available products don&#8217;t quite do what we want but this does all I need it to do so, except for the pleasure of building something myself (something about 4 times the size!), it&#8217;s impossible to compete with.<\/p>\n<p>Back to brain-racking time, I think!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been racking my brains (or what&#8217;s left of them) for a new electronics project and had more-or less settled on a simpler version of my camera intervalometer. I started costing the parts: 5-way Navigation Switch (with legend): \u00a320.00 2-stage push switch (for focus &#038; shutter): Unobtainable. ATmega328 microcontroller &#038; supporting parts: \u00a35.00 ish Enclosure: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=595"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":600,"href":"http:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions\/600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}