{"id":15,"date":"2008-01-21T01:24:05","date_gmt":"2008-01-21T06:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.logicalzero.com\/blog\/?p=15"},"modified":"2014-05-23T01:15:42","modified_gmt":"2014-05-23T05:15:42","slug":"doing-the-unstuck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.logicalzero.com\/blog\/?p=15","title":{"rendered":"Doing the unstuck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.logicalzero.com\/blog\/images\/motorboard3_badtransfer2.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.logicalzero.com\/blog\/images\/motorboard3_badtransfer2_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"A detailed scan of my bad transfer.\" title=\"A detailed scan of my bad transfer.\" style=\"margin: 4px\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a><em>Motor Controller Board toner transfer attempt #2: <strong>failed<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>An oft-quoted definition of insanity is doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting a different result. I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve quite lost it yet, at least not completely, but I was perhaps a bit overly optimistic. I was hoping for a better outcome than my previous attempt; in hindsight, however, I realize I could have done a bit more to differentiate this try from the previous one.<\/p>\n<p><em>A bit more<\/em>, in this case, meaning <em>anything at all<\/em>.<br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\" \/><!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.logicalzero.com\/blog\/images\/motorboard3_pretransfer.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.logicalzero.com\/blog\/images\/motorboard3_pretransfer_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"The board and laser prints, pre-transfer.\" title=\"The board and laser prints, pre-transfer.\" style=\"margin: 4px\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>The <em>mat\u00c3\u00a9riel<\/em> used in this try was identical to that of the previous attempt: an identical piece of copper-clad board and an identical laser printing on identical high-gloss inkjet paper. The results were, unsurprisingly, almost entirely identical. I had tried cleaning the board more thoroughly this time, as well as applying more heat and pressure with the iron; none of these differences seemed to have much of an effect whatsoever.<br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\" \/>I&#8217;ve concluded that the paper is the primary problem. The toner stuck to it too firmly; hardly any transferred to the board whatsoever. The paper did not even cling to the board &#8212; it came completely away after the iron had been removed. For attempt #3, I will return to the magazine pages. I will also make a better attempt at cleaning the board. While the paper may have clung too tightly to the toner, the splotchy irregularity of the transfer seems to indicate that the board wasn&#8217;t completely free of surface oxidation and gunk. I got a bit of advice after showing the failed board to a few people at the last Dorkbot Boston meeting; I&#8217;ll try it next time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Motor Controller Board toner transfer attempt #2: failed. An oft-quoted definition of insanity is doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting a different result. I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve quite lost it yet, at least not completely, but I was perhaps a bit overly optimistic. I was hoping for a better outcome than my previous attempt; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[18,12,11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.logicalzero.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.logicalzero.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.logicalzero.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.logicalzero.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.logicalzero.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.logicalzero.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":807,"href":"http:\/\/www.logicalzero.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions\/807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.logicalzero.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.logicalzero.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.logicalzero.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}