{"id":2276,"date":"2014-02-08T15:24:16","date_gmt":"2014-02-08T20:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.diyode.com\/?p=2276"},"modified":"2025-01-18T13:54:16","modified_gmt":"2025-01-18T18:54:16","slug":"the-sleep-over-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diyode.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/the-sleep-over-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sleep-over Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Sleep-over Machine\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FDJ9qPPzeWg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>So this little project came about because my younger daughter was having trouble with the concept of sleeping over at her grandparents house. We were at Diyode one Saturday morning, discussing what we could do about it. \u00a0We decided to make a machine that would imbue her with the super power of Sleepover. Scrounging through the spare parts bins there, we pulled together the above machine. It has a colour-fade ambient light LED and a 1W luxeon star reading light. Oh, and lots of hot-melt glue.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.diyode.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/SOM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2277\" alt=\"SOM\" src=\"http:\/\/www.diyode.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/SOM.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/diyode.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/SOM.jpg 640w, https:\/\/diyode.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/SOM-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A pair of rechargeable batteries, so far, has lasted about 2 weeks, and still going strong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So this little project came about because my younger daughter was having trouble with the concept of sleeping over at her grandparents house. We were at Diyode one Saturday morning, discussing what we could do about it. \u00a0We decided to make a machine that would imbue her with the super power of Sleepover. 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