{"id":2958,"date":"2009-07-03T16:37:48","date_gmt":"2009-07-03T23:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/?p=2958"},"modified":"2009-07-03T16:37:48","modified_gmt":"2009-07-03T23:37:48","slug":"rotating-electrical-connectors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2009\/07\/03\/rotating-electrical-connectors\/","title":{"rendered":"Rotating Electrical Connectors"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the Subzero event I ran into Gaspo and his Chakratron. Man, I love that thing.<\/p>\n

Sitting on the table was his source-book. All the manuals for all the parts that went into the Chakratron. The part that intrigues me the most is the rotating electrical connector. That’s the thing that lets the top part with lights spin at a gazillion RPM while the bottom part… well the bottom part sits safely on the ground.
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If you haven’t seen the Chakratron<\/a>, you’ve really got to check it out<\/a>. Video simply doesn’t do it justice though.<\/p>\n

Here’s the source of Gaspo’s rotating electrical connectors, Mercotac<\/a>. I simply must build something that uses these marvels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At the Subzero event I ran into Gaspo and his Chakratron. Man, I love that thing. Sitting on the table was his source-book. All the manuals for all the parts that went into the Chakratron. The part that intrigues me the most is the rotating electrical connector. That’s the thing that lets the top part […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-geekery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}