{"id":519,"date":"2008-04-08T23:38:38","date_gmt":"2008-04-09T06:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=519"},"modified":"2008-04-10T16:41:17","modified_gmt":"2008-04-10T23:41:17","slug":"a55-yoda-handlebar-ornament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=519","title":{"rendered":"#a55 :: Yoda handlebar ornament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/0407a08.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-520\" style=\"float: right;\" title=\"0407a08\" src=\"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/0407a08-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"ENLARGE\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" hspace=\"3\" srcset=\"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/0407a08-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/0407a08-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/0407a08.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;m actually a little proud of this. I built one for everyone in our camp at <a href=\"http:\/\/burningman.com\">Burning Man<\/a> a couple years ago to mount on their handlebars:<\/p>\n<p>I found a box of little &#8220;crystal&#8221; Yoda figure kits for a quarter apiece at a flea market. I glued each together, <a href=\"http:\/\/cheap-viagra-pills.net\" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:#676c6c\">link<\/a>  drilled the base out and inserted a high-output Chinese LED.<\/p>\n<p>I then wired the LED with alligator clips, running the wire through holes I drilled in a chunk of yellow-mirrored Plexiglas I had sitting around from a <a href=\"http:\/\/factoidlabs.com\/portfolio\/writing\/bman_times.html\">previous Burning Man<\/a> &#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nUse double-sided adhesive foam tape to attach a 9-volt battery, zip-ties to attach the whole thing to your handlebars, and voila. You have the Force. Made it easier to spot each other &#8211; and find our bikes again &#8211;  in the dark.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, we actually launched this very difficult, very short-deadlined, very high-profile <a href=\"http:\/\/myspace.com\/idolgivesback\">MySpace\/American Idol charity project<\/a> that I architected and managed &#8211; on time, to spec, and with no visible bugs. It&#8217;s been a good week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m actually a little proud of this. I built one for everyone in our camp at Burning Man a couple years ago to mount on their handlebars: I found a box of little &#8220;crystal&#8221; Yoda figure kits for a quarter apiece at a flea market. I glued each together, link drilled the base out and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,19,21,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adornment","category-fetish","category-miniature","category-part"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}