{"id":4103,"date":"2014-12-25T18:09:44","date_gmt":"2014-12-25T23:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/?p=4103"},"modified":"2014-12-26T11:49:35","modified_gmt":"2014-12-26T16:49:35","slug":"rube-goldberg-machine-using-light-and-optics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/25\/rube-goldberg-machine-using-light-and-optics\/","title":{"rendered":"Rube Goldberg machine using light and optics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4nCIzPuLYJA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an ad for a Japanese company&#8217;s fiber optic network. In the US, we call these Rube Goldberg machines. In Japan, they&#8217;re called Pythagorean Switches (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/PythagoraSwitch\">actually<\/a>). In the UK, they&#8217;re called Heath Robinson machines.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/skl.png\" alt=\"skl\" width=\"600\" height=\"328\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4104\" srcset=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/skl.png 600w, http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/skl-300x164.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\">\n<p>It&#8217;s an ad for a Japanese company&#8217;s fiber optic network. In the US, we call these Rube Goldberg machines. In Japan, they&#8217;re called Pythagorean Switches (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/PythagoraSwitch\">actually<\/a>). In the UK, they&#8217;re called Heath Robinson machines.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/25\/rube-goldberg-machine-using-light-and-optics\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4103"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4117,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4103\/revisions\/4117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}