{"id":915,"date":"2012-09-22T18:26:04","date_gmt":"2012-09-22T22:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/?p=915"},"modified":"2012-09-23T15:21:54","modified_gmt":"2012-09-23T19:21:54","slug":"how-to-build-a-horizontal-sundial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/how-to-build-a-horizontal-sundial\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Build A Horizontal Sundial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always wanted to build a sundial and so I finally did! I figured it would be the perfect project for HAW and a great educational tool. I started with a few Google searches and before I knew it I was over my head in info on sundials! There are several varieties from very simple to very complex but I chose the horizontal model. I found a few links that were quite a help.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll need to reference these links to help with laying out the dial and the &#8220;gnomen&#8221; of your sundial.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/History_of_sundials\" target=\"_blank\">History Of Sundials<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.melissadata.com\/lookups\/geocoder.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Find your latitude and longitude by location<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.anycalculator.com\/horizontalsundial.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Horizontal Sundial Calculator<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ngdc.noaa.gov\/geomagmodels\/Declination.jsp\" target=\"_blank\">Find your magnetic declination by location<\/a><\/p>\n<p>All you really need to build a sundial is some paper, a pencil, ruler, protractor and some glue or a hot glue gun. I mounted my paper printouts on some foam board with spray adhesive, then used hot glue to attach the gnomen.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/?attachment_id=920\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-920\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/My-Sundial.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"My Sundial\" width=\"887\" height=\"712\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-920\" srcset=\"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/My-Sundial.jpg 887w, http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/My-Sundial-150x120.jpg 150w, http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/My-Sundial-300x240.jpg 300w, http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/My-Sundial-373x300.jpg 373w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 887px) 100vw, 887px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow along on with the video and you&#8217;ll see how easy it is to make your very own sundial!<\/p>\n<p>Keep on hackin!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/14GOFiJSElI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always wanted to build a sundial and so I finally did! I figured it would be the perfect project for HAW and a great educational tool. I started with a few Google searches and before I knew it I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/how-to-build-a-horizontal-sundial\/\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-website"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915","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=915"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":919,"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions\/919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}