{"id":10209,"date":"2021-03-07T03:36:56","date_gmt":"2021-03-07T03:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/?p=10209"},"modified":"2021-03-07T03:36:56","modified_gmt":"2021-03-07T03:36:56","slug":"snowflakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/?p=10209","title":{"rendered":"Snowflakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finally tuned the plotter a bit to make it perform faster. I was trying to make it move faster by increasing the stepper motor speed, it turns out optimizing the pen up\/down action was really where all the slowness was and makes everything appear to run faster. It&#8217;s quite spiffy now and I&#8217;ve been plotting non-stop this past week.<\/p>\n<p>Snowflakes courtesy of <a href=\"https:\/\/turtletoy.net\/turtle\/f89ca289be\">llemarie @ turtletoy.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/IMG_0031.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10211\" src=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/IMG_0031-1024x929.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"476\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/snowflakes.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10213\" src=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/snowflakes.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"223\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/IMG_0053.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10210\" src=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/IMG_0053-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally tuned the plotter a bit to make it perform faster. I was trying to make it move faster by increasing the stepper motor speed, it turns out optimizing the pen up\/down action was really where all the slowness was and makes everything appear to run faster. It&#8217;s quite spiffy now and I&#8217;ve been &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/?p=10209\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Snowflakes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aesthetics","category-plots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}