{"id":8,"date":"2012-01-02T02:59:18","date_gmt":"2012-01-02T02:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rebelbot.com\/blog\/?p=8"},"modified":"2015-01-14T07:38:31","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T07:38:31","slug":"a-new-year-means-new-equipment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rebelbot.com\/blog\/a-new-year-means-new-equipment\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Year Means New Equipment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to RebelBot!<\/p>\n<p>Us Rebel Bots have decided that life is too short to do our:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>professional work,<\/li>\n<li>consulting work,<\/li>\n<li>hobby projects<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>with under-powered tools. Therefore, we opted to bring in the New Year with new equipment.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, we are enjoying the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.all-spec.com\/products\/PS-900.html\">OKI\/Metcal PS-900 <\/a>while trying to find a home the old <a href=\"http:\/\/www.all-spec.com\/products\/WLC100.html?gclid=CJ_Wye6jsK0CFQhjhwod8Dbr8w\">Weller WLC100<\/a> (with 4 different fine tips).<\/p>\n<p>What else are we doing? Stepping out more and talking about our work. Namely, writing proposals for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oscon.com\/oscon2012\">OSCON<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/events.linuxfoundation.org\/\">Linux Foundation<\/a> instead of simply making the rounds at local circuit level. Why? Because sometimes you need to be your own example of what you want to see at a conference.<\/p>\n<p>And finally, we are gathering our tech friends together to contribute to the discussion and create a broader set of opinions and ideas.<\/p>\n<p>As a side note, if you want or need a trusty soldering iron for yourself or another organization, let us know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to RebelBot! Us Rebel Bots have decided that life is too short to do our: professional work, consulting work, hobby projects with under-powered tools. Therefore, we opted to bring in the New Year with new equipment. Yes, we are enjoying the OKI\/Metcal PS-900 while trying to find a home the old Weller WLC100 (with &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rebelbot.com\/blog\/a-new-year-means-new-equipment\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A New Year Means New Equipment&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[27],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware","tag-hardware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rebelbot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rebelbot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rebelbot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebelbot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebelbot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebelbot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebelbot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions\/83"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rebelbot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebelbot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebelbot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}