{"id":3939,"date":"2011-11-30T00:35:44","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T05:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=3939"},"modified":"2011-11-30T00:45:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-30T05:45:00","slug":"future-snow-bike-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2011\/11\/30\/future-snow-bike-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Future Snow Bike Light?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=1>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"black\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/stuffivemade\/IMG_6652.jpg.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=2\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/d\/99833-2\/IMG_6652.jpg\" height=427 width=640 border=0 title=\"By combining two older projects I've suddenly got a battery-powered fork crown-mounted riding light. I may have to expand on this...\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>This evening while straightening up the basement I decided to play around with combining parts from two previous projects (a commuter light picked up at the <a href=\"http:\/\/mmba.org\">MMBA Expo<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/wiki\/Bicycle_Video_Recorder\">Bicycle Video Recorder<\/a>) and it seems to work. I&#8217;m able to use the rather large LiPo battery and voltage regulator to get the requisite 6V, and it seems to power the light nicely.<\/p>\n<p>The light should be mountable on the crown of the <a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/acquired_stuff\/salsa_mukluk_2\/\">Mukluk<\/a>, so maybe I&#8217;ll put this to work as a low-mount night riding light for winter use. I&#8217;ll just have to sort out the battery mount, but that shouldn&#8217;t be a big deal. Yay, another project!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This evening while straightening up the basement I decided to play around with combining parts from two previous projects (a commuter light picked up at&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2011\/11\/30\/future-snow-bike-light\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Future Snow Bike Light?<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,6,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-electronics","category-making-things","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3939"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3950,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3939\/revisions\/3950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}