{"id":4119,"date":"2016-09-20T13:23:17","date_gmt":"2016-09-20T18:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/?p=4119"},"modified":"2016-09-20T13:37:39","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T18:37:39","slug":"flashing-kids-shoe-teardown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/20\/flashing-kids-shoe-teardown\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashing Kids Shoe Teardown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I took apart one of those kids shoes that flashes to see what the battery\/circuit\/sensor looked like. Here it is:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_20160920_113055.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4120\" src=\"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_20160920_113055-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"img_20160920_113055\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_20160920_113055-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_20160920_113055-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_20160920_113055-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_20160920_113055-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_20160920_113118.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4121\" src=\"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_20160920_113118-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"img_20160920_113118\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_20160920_113118-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_20160920_113118-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_20160920_113118-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_20160920_113118-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A small coin cell (under the round sticker), a circuit board, and a spring sensor are embedded in a square block of resin. It has three output channels (labeled R,G,B, although in this particular shoe all three were connected to red LED&#8217;s). \u00a0 One LED (shown) was pointing out the back of the sole, and the other two were on top of the shoe. It took me about 5 minutes with a razer knife to dig this out of the sole of the shoe, and another 5 minutes to cut out the wires that went up to the red LED&#8217;s on the top of the shoe. Here is a video:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/VzBh_e9JIis?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took apart one of those kids shoes that flashes to see what the battery\/circuit\/sensor looked like. Here it is: A small coin cell (under the round sticker), a circuit board, and a spring sensor are embedded in a square &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/20\/flashing-kids-shoe-teardown\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[8,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4119"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4123,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4119\/revisions\/4123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}