{"id":228,"date":"2011-03-09T12:32:48","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T04:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.magicandlove.com\/blog\/?p=228"},"modified":"2011-03-09T12:49:20","modified_gmt":"2011-03-09T04:49:20","slug":"it-is-a-floating-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.magicandlove.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/09\/it-is-a-floating-ball\/","title":{"rendered":"It is a floating ball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is a proof of concept work. I use a <a href=\"http:\/\/puredata.info\/\">PureData<\/a> patch to control an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arduino.cc\/\">Arduino<\/a> board with PWM output to drive a small computer fan. The load is managed\u00a0by a <a href=\"http:\/\/focus.ti.com\/lit\/ds\/symlink\/uln2803a.pdf\">ULN2803A<\/a> IC. The blowing power is not linearly proportional to the numerical value sent from PureData. It is quite difficult to sustain a floating position in the middle of the air.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ELRksW0s9is?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-228 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.magicandlove.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/09\/it-is-a-floating-ball\/floatingball001\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.magicandlove.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/FloatingBall001-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.magicandlove.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/FloatingBall001-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.magicandlove.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/FloatingBall001-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.magicandlove.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/FloatingBall001.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.magicandlove.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/09\/it-is-a-floating-ball\/floatingball002\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.magicandlove.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/FloatingBall002-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.magicandlove.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/FloatingBall002-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.magicandlove.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/FloatingBall002-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.magicandlove.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/FloatingBall002.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.magicandlove.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/09\/it-is-a-floating-ball\/floatingball003\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.magicandlove.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/FloatingBall003-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.magicandlove.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/FloatingBall003-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.magicandlove.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/FloatingBall003-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.magicandlove.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/FloatingBall003.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.magicandlove.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/09\/it-is-a-floating-ball\/floatingball004\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.magicandlove.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/FloatingBall004-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.magicandlove.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/FloatingBall004-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.magicandlove.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/FloatingBall004-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.magicandlove.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/FloatingBall004.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is a proof of concept work. I use a PureData patch to control an Arduino board with PWM output to drive a small computer fan. The load is managed\u00a0by a ULN2803A IC. The blowing power is not linearly proportional to the numerical value sent from PureData. It is quite difficult to sustain a floating [&hellip;]<\/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":[50,53,52,51],"class_list":["post-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-arduino","tag-interactivity","tag-puredata","tag-pwm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.magicandlove.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.magicandlove.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.magicandlove.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.magicandlove.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.magicandlove.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.magicandlove.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235,"href":"http:\/\/www.magicandlove.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions\/235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.magicandlove.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.magicandlove.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.magicandlove.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}