{"id":833,"date":"2013-05-17T15:50:28","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T15:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trouble.org\/?p=833"},"modified":"2014-11-24T17:25:44","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T17:25:44","slug":"the-monster-on-my-desk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trouble.org\/?p=833","title":{"rendered":"the monster on my desk&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[EDIT nov 24\/2014] &#8211; the beast is dead&#8230; fried somehow, but was great for a year and a half. Onto a USB 3.0 one ;)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I suppose that most are fine without it\u2026 but around here, at least, USB hubs follow the same laws that govern hard drives and power strips &#8211; &#8220;build it and you will fill&#8221; &#8211; I&#8217;m hoping this one will last me awhile:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/trouble.org\/uploads\/2013\/05\/monster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-834\" src=\"https:\/\/trouble.org\/uploads\/2013\/05\/monster.jpg\" alt=\"monster\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trouble.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/monster.jpg 300w, https:\/\/trouble.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/monster-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/trouble.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/monster-96x96.jpg 96w, https:\/\/trouble.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/monster-24x24.jpg 24w, https:\/\/trouble.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/monster-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/trouble.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/monster-48x48.jpg 48w, https:\/\/trouble.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/monster-64x64.jpg 64w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(From amazon, with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/24-Port-USB-2-0-HUB-Adapter\/dp\/B003WPDICM&lt;br \/&gt;\n\">link<\/a> that will presumably die someday soon&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s amazing how many little USB devices I&#8217;ve started to collect and use on an ongoing basis\u2026 a raspberry PI, beaglebone (a RP-like little computer), software defined radio, keyboard, mouse, headset, etc., the list goes on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[EDIT nov 24\/2014] &#8211; the beast is dead&#8230; fried somehow, but was great for a year and a half. Onto a USB 3.0 one ;) &nbsp; I suppose that most are fine without it\u2026 but around here, at least, USB hubs follow the same laws that govern hard drives and power strips &#8211; &#8220;build it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[218,219],"class_list":["post-833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-monster","tag-usb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trouble.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trouble.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trouble.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trouble.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trouble.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=833"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/trouble.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1070,"href":"https:\/\/trouble.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833\/revisions\/1070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trouble.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trouble.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trouble.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}