{"id":13028,"date":"2018-07-20T21:38:29","date_gmt":"2018-07-21T04:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=13028"},"modified":"2018-07-27T21:39:28","modified_gmt":"2018-07-28T04:39:28","slug":"2018-07-20-my-digital-dice-were-loaded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=13028","title":{"rendered":"2018-07-20 My Digital Dice Were Loaded!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From FB group Building Transistor Radios, Jul 27<\/p>\n<p>Rolando Fern\u00e1ndez<\/p>\n<p>I bought a kit for a digital die (one die of a pair of dice). I assembled it and then I rolled the die many times and wrote down the values to see if it was random. I was shocked! It was loaded! It was operating correctly but it was cheating!<\/p>\n<p>It didn&#8217;t have a bypass capacitor across the battery. Once I added the bypass capacitor, it was no longer loaded. After many rolls the numbers came up random. So don&#8217;t believe that just because a circuit seems to work okay without one, that it will work okay with all batteries and under all conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From FB group Building Transistor Radios, Jul 27 Rolando Fern\u00e1ndez I bought a kit for a digital die (one die of a pair of dice). I assembled it and then I rolled the die many times and wrote down the values to see if it was random. I was shocked! It was loaded! It was<a href=\"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=13028\"> <\/p>\n<p> (Read More&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[309,144,75,264],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assembling-kit","category-battery-or-cell","category-capacitors","category-power-supplies-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13029,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13028\/revisions\/13029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}