{"id":54,"date":"2018-09-03T02:38:23","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T06:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/?p=54"},"modified":"2018-09-05T21:39:27","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T01:39:27","slug":"hackerboxes-0028-jam-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/2018\/09\/hackerboxes-0028-jam-box\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackerboxes #0028: Jam Box"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The soldering for this one was a piece of cake. Everything was nicely padded and spaced.\u00a0 Big pads make soldering way easier than a tiny ring.<\/p>\n<p>EXCEPT for the potentiometers.\u00a0 The strain-relief legs didn&#8217;t fit into the PCB holes, and Hackerboxes just suggested shaping them into a tube to make them fit, without any real guidelines on how to do that.\u00a0 Anyway&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I hadn&#8217;t yet installed the Arduino IDE on my primary Macbook. No issues there. Had to install the ESP32 board into the Board Manager.\u00a0 Then I had to install the VCP USB UART driver so that the serial port would show up in the Arduino IDE.<\/p>\n<p>Then, BAM.\u00a0 My sketch uploaded and works.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I know I didn&#8217;t install the pots yet.\u00a0 I also didn&#8217;t install the DAC yet.\u00a0 Maybe tomorrow.\u00a0 I just wanted to light up the MAX7219 8x8s.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 525px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-54-1\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/VID_20180902_222907-1.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/VID_20180902_222907-1.mp4\">http:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/VID_20180902_222907-1.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The soldering for this one was a piece of cake. Everything was nicely padded and spaced.\u00a0 Big pads make soldering way easier than a tiny ring. EXCEPT for the potentiometers.\u00a0 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/2018\/09\/hackerboxes-0028-jam-box\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hackerboxes #0028: Jam Box&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[23,24,25],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware","tag-hackerboxes","tag-hardware","tag-iot"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60,"href":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions\/60"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}