{"id":14590,"date":"2014-05-19T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=14590"},"modified":"2014-05-19T08:57:16","modified_gmt":"2014-05-19T15:57:16","slug":"useless-machine-kit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/useless-machine-kit\/","title":{"rendered":"Useless Machine Kit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Useless Machine was a popular contraption in the 70s that is making a comeback. It&#8217;s a\u00a0simple mechanism with a two-circuit switch that inverts the direction of motion of a DC motor in the box, enabling a finger in the box to switch itself off.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s sold as a kit, and the assembly is a pleasant weekend experience. It should not take more than an hour to put together.<\/p>\n<p>I customized mine by ordering a halloween costume&#8217;s hand, and rebuilding the plastic to more closely resemble a human finger. The first time one see it pop out, it is actually quite startling!<\/p>\n<p>I use mine in demonstrations to another team &#8212; to illustrate what tedious repetitive work is all about.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"475\" height=\"356\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z86V_ICUCD4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tool for generating existentialist philosophical discussion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14590"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14590"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14739,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14590\/revisions\/14739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}