{"id":355,"date":"2006-08-01T17:56:13","date_gmt":"2006-08-01T22:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/01\/cd-sextant-build-your-own-sextant-using-old-cds\/"},"modified":"2006-08-04T15:59:30","modified_gmt":"2006-08-04T20:59:30","slug":"cd-sextant-build-your-own-sextant-using-old-cds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/cd-sextant-build-your-own-sextant-using-old-cds\/","title":{"rendered":"CD-Sextant: Build your own sextant using old CD&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This cool DIY (Do It Yourself) project teaches you how to make your own sextant to experiment with celestial navigation using the following items:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A CD with box (you can use those free AOL disks).<\/li>\n<li>A4 Sticker paper (full page, without label cuts. For printing the scale on inkjet or laser printer)<\/li>\n<li>2 small glass mirrors ( 40 mm x 22 mm x 3 mm thick ).<\/li>\n<li>1 2&#215;4 Lego brick<\/li>\n<li>2 2&#215;1 Lego plates<\/li>\n<li>1 2&#215;2 Lego brick<\/li>\n<li>1 2&#215;2 Lego plate<\/li>\n<li>A couple more Lego bricks for the shade support (depends on your design)<\/li>\n<li>Cyanoacrylate glue (Loctite Superbonder).<\/li>\n<li>Paper cutter (Olfa cutter)<\/li>\n<li>Ruler<\/li>\n<li>Scissors<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As you can see you only need some commonly available items and the instructions don&#8217;t look that hard to follow. Might try making this one of these days&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Check it out: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tecepe.com.br\/nav\/CDSextantProject.htm\">Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Update (4th Aug 2006)<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>Since a couple of people got confused and this post was an OHT (Over Head Transmission) for someone here are a couple of links with more info on Sextants:<\/p>\n<p>* <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&#038;lr=&#038;safe=off&#038;defl=en&#038;q=define:Sextant&#038;sa=X&#038;oi=glossary_definition&#038;ct=title\">Define Sextants<\/a><br \/>\n* <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sextant\">Wikipedia entry of Sextant<\/a><br \/>\n* <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dynagen.co.za\/eugene\/where\/sextant.html\">The Sextant<\/a><br \/>\n* <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nauticality.uk.com\/nlhowusesextant.html\">How to use a Sexton<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Suramya<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This cool DIY (Do It Yourself) project teaches you how to make your own sextant to experiment with celestial navigation using the following items: A CD with box (you can use those free AOL disks). A4 Sticker paper (full page, without label cuts. For printing the scale on inkjet or laser printer) 2 small glass [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting-sites","category-techie-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}