{"id":273,"date":"2017-07-30T15:17:20","date_gmt":"2017-07-30T19:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ion\/?p=273"},"modified":"2017-12-19T15:20:51","modified_gmt":"2017-12-19T20:20:51","slug":"hard-drive-shutter-controller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ion\/uncategorized\/hard-drive-shutter-controller\/","title":{"rendered":"Hard-Drive Shutter Controller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kirby Gordon &#8217;20 has built an elegant four-channel controller which we will soon use to drive mechanical shutters constructed from laptop hard drives (following Rev. Sci. Instrum.\u00a0<strong>75,<\/strong>\u00a03077 (2004) and Rev. Sci. Instrum.\u00a0<strong>78<\/strong>, 026101 (2007)).\u00a0 TTL pulses sent to the controller cause the shutters to toggle from open to closed.\u00a0 Thanks also to Jason Mativi (the Williams College electromechanical technician) for helping to sort out the hard drives!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_269\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-269\" class=\"wp-image-269 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ion\/files\/2017\/12\/shutter_controller-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ion\/files\/2017\/12\/shutter_controller-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ion\/files\/2017\/12\/shutter_controller-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ion\/files\/2017\/12\/shutter_controller-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-269\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Four-channel shutter controller designed and built by Kirby Gordon, &#8217;20.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kirby Gordon &#8217;20 has built an elegant four-channel controller which we will soon use to drive mechanical shutters constructed from laptop hard drives (following Rev. Sci. Instrum.\u00a075,\u00a03077 (2004) and Rev. Sci. Instrum.\u00a078, 026101 (2007)).\u00a0 TTL pulses sent to the controller &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ion\/uncategorized\/hard-drive-shutter-controller\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":996,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/996"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions\/275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}