{"id":7,"date":"2006-12-26T14:32:38","date_gmt":"2006-12-26T21:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/potlach.org\/feast\/?p=7"},"modified":"2011-01-03T19:45:11","modified_gmt":"2011-01-04T02:45:11","slug":"hene-laser-homage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/potlach.org\/feast\/2006\/12\/26\/hene-laser-homage\/","title":{"rendered":"HeNe laser tribute"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/potlach.org\/2006\/12\/laser\/laser-tube-s.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Over the weekend, in an end-of-the-year cleaning frenzy to free up some much needed space, I stumbled upon my old stash of laser supplies.  30-ish years ago my father and I built a helium neon laser for a grade school science project (in the 70&#8217;s I was really into lasers and holograms). After about 60 minutes of trying to get everything back in working order I came to the conclusion it just wasn&#8217;t going to happen.  And while it felt good to sling solder again, I ultimately had to come to grips with letting most of my stash go. What I couldn&#8217;t part with however were the <a href=\"http:\/\/potlach.org\/2006\/12\/laser\/laser-tube.jpg\">Hughes Helium-Neon laser tubes<\/a> that made this project possible. After thinking a bit about how to store these for another 30 years, I decided to go a different route. As a christmas present to myself, I built a simple stand to proudly display these tubes. And while most people that see them offer an odd glance or two, to me they are a reminder of a simple truth that often times the best way to understand something is simply to build it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nOver the weekend, in an end-of-the-year cleaning frenzy to free up some much needed space, I stumbled upon my old&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/potlach.org\/feast\/2006\/12\/26\/hene-laser-homage\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;HeNe laser tribute&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/potlach.org\/feast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/potlach.org\/feast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/potlach.org\/feast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/potlach.org\/feast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/potlach.org\/feast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/potlach.org\/feast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126,"href":"https:\/\/potlach.org\/feast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions\/126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/potlach.org\/feast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/potlach.org\/feast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/potlach.org\/feast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}