{"id":338,"date":"2011-02-26T16:13:06","date_gmt":"2011-02-26T20:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spikenzielabs.com\/blog\/?p=338"},"modified":"2011-02-26T16:13:06","modified_gmt":"2011-02-26T20:13:06","slug":"geared-motor-emporium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spikenzielabs.com\/blog\/geared-motor-emporium\/","title":{"rendered":"Geared Motor Emporium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you get a broken &#8216;not worth fixing&#8217; All-in-One Scanner \/ Printer \/ Fax, there is an amazing opportunity within. \u00a0On the outside, it is a broken office garbage. \u00a0On the inside, a wealth of supplies for the DIY tinkerer, and you can dispose of the rest in an environmentally friendly way.<\/p>\n<p>Came across a broken Canon MP580 all in one the other day. \u00a0I could tell that buried deep inside, I would find some awesome motors, and possibly more. \u00a0After peeling off the layers of plastic, here is what I managed to source out.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style 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\/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>A variety of DC motors, 2 Stepper Motors, 1 Solenoid, LCD display, Speaker, Optical Encoders, and a slew of different gears, for tinkering at another time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you get a broken &#8216;not worth fixing&#8217; All-in-One Scanner \/ Printer \/ Fax, there is an amazing opportunity within. \u00a0On the outside, it is a broken office garbage. \u00a0On the inside, a wealth of supplies for the DIY tinkerer, and you can dispose of the rest in an environmentally friendly way. Came across a broken Canon MP580\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spikenzielabs.com\/blog\/geared-motor-emporium\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,45,44,24,46,30,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spikenzielabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spikenzielabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spikenzielabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spikenzielabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spikenzielabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.spikenzielabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":358,"href":"https:\/\/www.spikenzielabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions\/358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spikenzielabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spikenzielabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spikenzielabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}