{"id":2890,"date":"2012-09-20T08:48:04","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T15:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=2890"},"modified":"2012-09-20T08:48:04","modified_gmt":"2012-09-20T15:48:04","slug":"i-really-am-sorry-guys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/20\/i-really-am-sorry-guys\/","title":{"rendered":"i really am sorry guys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week is just not working out for a DIY post. Instead of tossing out a sloppy, short post about digital audio workstations, I&#8217;m going to punt it back for a week in order to do it right. We&#8217;ll talk about digital audio workstation software next Wednesday, when I&#8217;ll hopefully be back on schedule.<\/p>\n<p>But if you&#8217;re really jonsing for something fun to build, below is a great video series on building a really <em>attractive<\/em> crystal radio. It&#8217;s AM only, of course, as they all are, but there&#8217;s no power required and you <em>really are<\/em> building your own equipment from the ground up. You&#8217;re even building your own variable capacitor, the prettiest one I&#8217;ve seen in a crystal radio build:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MCmW6qMnomQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s broken up into 12 short video chunks for some reason. Part 1 is all background, you can skip that if you want and just start <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4Jk8Rhpv5cQ\">here on Part 2<\/a>, about two minutes in. But if you start that late you&#8217;ll miss them showing off a different classic crystal radio design.<\/p>\n<p>uh&#8230; yeah, it&#8217;s all in Japanese. Is that a problem? That might be a problem. If it is, here&#8217;s a slightly different design that&#8217;s entirely in English. It&#8217;s not as pretty, but there&#8217;s a parts list, and! you still get to build a capacitor! By hand! Which is awesome.<\/p>\n<p>This one&#8217;s not as attractive looking as the kit above, though, so maybe you should steal the physical design from the Japanese video. You could totally make the radio below look a lot like the radio above without much or any Japanese; once you know the circuit it&#8217;s all pretty simple and just a matter of arrangement, crafting, and specific materials. (Copper vs. aluminium, things like that.)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, once more, with English:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VqdcU9ULAlA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Have fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week is just not working out for a DIY post. Instead of tossing out a sloppy, short post about digital audio workstations, I&#8217;m going to punt it back for a week in order to do it right. We&#8217;ll talk about digital audio workstation software next Wednesday, when I&#8217;ll hopefully be back on schedule. But [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}