{"id":610,"date":"2012-01-28T12:33:09","date_gmt":"2012-01-28T17:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/?p=610"},"modified":"2012-01-28T13:39:01","modified_gmt":"2012-01-28T18:39:01","slug":"five-minute-power-window-blinds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/five-minute-power-window-blinds\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Minute Power Window Blinds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I was wrapping up the stepper motor project last week I opened the window blinds for more light and thought, &#8220;hey&#8230; it would be cool to just grab a motor and attach it to the window actuator rod in the same way I coupled the stepper motor to the magnet motor. Instant power window blinds!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So, The camera was already right there and I had the time so I hacked a motor to my window blinds, pretty much as you see it transpiring in the video. I decided to just let images do the talking in this one. <\/p>\n<p>As for the music, I did what I always do, every week with a hack video. I go to <a href=\"http:\/\/freemusicarchive.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">freemusicarchive.org<\/a> where I enter a keyword in the search bar then listen to the selections. This week I typed &#8220;motor&#8221; and I found the song you&#8217;ll hear, &#8220;Behave like motor&#8221; from Salakapakka Sound System.<br \/>\nSo listen now with your eyes and enjoy the video and music. <\/p>\n<p>Keep on hackin&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/?attachment_id=611\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-611\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/power-window-004.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"power window 004\" width=\"782\" height=\"1000\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-611\" srcset=\"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/power-window-004.jpg 782w, http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/power-window-004-117x150.jpg 117w, http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/power-window-004-234x300.jpg 234w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 782px) 100vw, 782px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bChoEnMIO-w\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>T &#8211; 8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I was wrapping up the stepper motor project last week I opened the window blinds for more light and thought, &#8220;hey&#8230; it would be cool to just grab a motor and attach it to the window actuator rod in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/five-minute-power-window-blinds\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hacks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":622,"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions\/622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}