{"id":104,"date":"2012-05-27T17:48:09","date_gmt":"2012-05-28T01:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jellyfishinterface.com\/?p=104"},"modified":"2012-06-14T19:35:17","modified_gmt":"2012-06-15T03:35:17","slug":"dragoncon-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jellyfishinterface.com\/?p=104","title":{"rendered":"Dragoncon update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps you&#8217;re curious why there haven&#8217;t been updates for a little while? \u00a0To make a long story short, our second jellyfish&#8217;s circuitry <em>didn&#8217;t work<\/em>. \u00a0The new radio link allowed us to push color and brightness updates to the lights <em>much<\/em>\u00a0faster than the old system did, and the techniques we&#8217;d used to construct the first jellyfish simply weren&#8217;t able to handle the increased speed. \u00a0After much panic and confusion, we bought an oscilloscope.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jellyfishinterface.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/20120523_164129.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-105\" title=\"'Scope\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jellyfishinterface.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/20120523_164129-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.jellyfishinterface.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/20120523_164129-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.jellyfishinterface.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/20120523_164129-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.jellyfishinterface.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/20120523_164129.jpg 1077w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is an indispensable piece of equipment when you&#8217;re dealing with communications interference! \u00a0With the oscilloscope (and the help of several people far more savvy than us when it comes to RF circuit design), we finally got things working again:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jellyfishinterface.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/20120527_181458.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-106\" title=\"Strands for jellyfish #2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jellyfishinterface.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/20120527_181458-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.jellyfishinterface.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/20120527_181458-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.jellyfishinterface.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/20120527_181458-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.jellyfishinterface.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/20120527_181458.jpg 1077w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While we were waiting for the oscilloscope to arrive, we&#8217;ve mostly finished the gown costume and the skirt\/vest costume &#8211; and they look great! \u00a0When we get more of the props integrated, there will be photos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps you&#8217;re curious why there haven&#8217;t been updates for a little while? \u00a0To make a long story short, our second jellyfish&#8217;s circuitry didn&#8217;t work. \u00a0The new radio link allowed us [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dragoncon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jellyfishinterface.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jellyfishinterface.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jellyfishinterface.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jellyfishinterface.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jellyfishinterface.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.jellyfishinterface.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108,"href":"http:\/\/www.jellyfishinterface.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions\/108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jellyfishinterface.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jellyfishinterface.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jellyfishinterface.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}