{"id":267,"date":"2010-11-08T04:03:49","date_gmt":"2010-11-08T04:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mariarabinovich.com\/physcomp\/?p=267"},"modified":"2011-02-05T17:54:05","modified_gmt":"2011-02-05T17:54:05","slug":"transistor-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mariarabinovich.com\/blog\/archives\/267","title":{"rendered":"Transistor Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mariarabinovich.com\/physcomp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/motorlab.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"299\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-269\" title=\"motorlab\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mariarabinovich.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/motorlab.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mariarabinovich.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/motorlab.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.mariarabinovich.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/motorlab-300x179.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I used a 5V regulator to regulate the 9V going into the motor, and then I thought that I could power the arduino with that same 5V, and it worked! I was able to unplug it from the computer.<\/p>\n<p>But doesn&#8217;t this defeat the purpose of using an external (to arduino) power supply? Was the motor needing more than 5V?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mariarabinovich.com\/physcomp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/dcMotor.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"363\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-275\" title=\"dcMotor\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mariarabinovich.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/dcMotor.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mariarabinovich.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/dcMotor.jpg 450w, http:\/\/www.mariarabinovich.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/dcMotor-300x242.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[wpvideo LTPVMetJ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I used a 5V regulator to regulate the 9V going into the motor, and then I thought that I could power the arduino with that same 5V, and it worked! I was able to unplug it from the computer. But doesn&#8217;t this defeat the purpose of using an external (to arduino) power supply? Was the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,24,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-labs","category-physical-computing","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mariarabinovich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mariarabinovich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mariarabinovich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mariarabinovich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mariarabinovich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.mariarabinovich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":423,"href":"http:\/\/www.mariarabinovich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions\/423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mariarabinovich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mariarabinovich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mariarabinovich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}