{"id":287,"date":"2015-01-18T21:38:54","date_gmt":"2015-01-19T02:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/?p=287"},"modified":"2015-01-21T22:17:12","modified_gmt":"2015-01-22T03:17:12","slug":"week-03-2015-big-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/?p=287","title":{"rendered":"Week 03, 2015 &#8211; Big Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>2015-01-21 *Sigh* Yes, I&#8217;m back-dating these posts because I didn&#8217;t want to start the year off badly when the reason I kept being unable to sit down and write them was\u00a0<em>because<\/em> I<em> had<\/em>\u00a0so much cool stuff going on!!!<\/h6>\n<p>So I got a small investment from my mother, for my birthday. It&#8217;s going to buy something very, very, very,\u00a0<em>spiffy<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>When I show off what it is, I&#8217;ll also be announcing what I hope to become a new feature of the site, as well as listing some projects I want to undertake. \u00a0Other than that, I&#8217;m still waiting on the screen printing article because I&#8217;ve got a few small but important items coming in, and because there&#8217;s a lot of photos I&#8217;d need to take that I haven&#8217;t yet.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of screen printing, I found a cheap IR-based flash dryer for $400 that some guy sells&#8230;builds them himself and it&#8217;s basically just the panel with a metal box built around it and a light switch to flip it on and off. \u00a0So I went straight to Intek and they quoted me a price under $200 for the same panel. <em>(Way under.)<\/em> Between that, and building my own 36-inch-long exposure unit&#8211; so I can do all the way up to 36&#215;31 frames &#8211;for about $200&#8230; \u00a0I&#8217;d say I&#8217;m good on that front, it just might take me a couple months unless I come up with another source of funding.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, just over a week until my birthday!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2015-01-21 *Sigh* Yes, I&#8217;m back-dating these posts because I didn&#8217;t want to start the year off badly when the reason I kept being unable to sit down and write them was\u00a0because I had\u00a0so much cool stuff going on!!! So I got a small investment from my mother, for my birthday. It&#8217;s going to buy something [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":[28],"tags":[29],"wf_post_folders":[79],"class_list":["post-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-status-report","tag-acquisitions"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NlLW-4D","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":288,"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions\/288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=287"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fwf_post_folders&post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}