{"id":8527,"date":"2005-06-02T14:05:34","date_gmt":"2005-06-02T14:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=8527"},"modified":"2005-06-02T14:05:34","modified_gmt":"2005-06-02T14:05:34","slug":"junk-cd-lamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8527","title":{"rendered":"Junk CD Lamp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" align=\"right\" valign=\"top\" src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/cdLamp2.jpg\">The two questions we get asked the most here at Street Tech Labs (besides: &#8220;Gareth, how do you keep your skin so soft and supple?&#8221;) are: &#8220;What the hell do I do with my cast-off PC?&#8221; and &#8220;What the F*** am I s&#8217;posed to do with all these junk CD-ROMs that keep coming in the mail!?&#8221; We tried to answer that second question in my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0789729717\/streettech-20\" target=\"new\">robot book<\/a>, using two AOL CDs to build a small robot development platform. Here&#8217;s another idea: Make a <a href=\"http:\/\/neil.fraser.name\/hardware\/lamp\/night.html?\" target=\"new\">mod-looking desklamp<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p> Here&#8217;s a link to a <a href=\"http:\/\/photocreations.ca\/cd_lamp\/\" target=\"new\">similar lamp<\/a> project, with more in-depth how-to instruction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The two questions we get asked the most here at Street Tech Labs (besides: &#8220;Gareth, how do you keep your skin so soft and supple?&#8221;) are: &#8220;What the hell do I do with my cast-off PC?&#8221; and &#8220;What the F*** am I s&#8217;posed to do with all these junk CD-ROMs that keep coming in the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8527\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Junk CD Lamp&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}