{"id":118,"date":"2010-12-16T01:22:23","date_gmt":"2010-12-16T01:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heffrey.com\/blog\/?p=118"},"modified":"2011-03-11T07:10:33","modified_gmt":"2011-03-11T07:10:33","slug":"the-paperclip-trick-power-up-a-computer-psu-without-motherboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.happycapsule.com\/blog\/the-paperclip-trick-power-up-a-computer-psu-without-motherboard\/","title":{"rendered":"The paperclip trick &#8211; power up a computer PSU without motherboard&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are testing a stripped down 3.5&#8243; hard drive to see if it will 1) act as a good gyroscope and 2) run on an 18V battery pack for 2.5 hours&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>We have been using an old ATX power supply to power the drive on a tether and a quick google introduced the &#8220;paperclip trick&#8221; where you short the only green pin with one of the adjacent brown ground (COM) wires to turn the PSU on&#8230; This means no more need to have an old motherboard connected to the PSU just to get power flowing. Pretty nifty!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-119\" title=\"tumblr_ldhwxvp7Jn1qb45rgo1_500\" src=\"http:\/\/happycapsule.s3.amazonaws.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/tumblr_ldhwxvp7Jn1qb45rgo1_500.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.happycapsule.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/tumblr_ldhwxvp7Jn1qb45rgo1_500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.happycapsule.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/tumblr_ldhwxvp7Jn1qb45rgo1_500-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are testing a stripped down 3.5&#8243; hard drive to see if it will 1) act as a good gyroscope and 2) run on an 18V battery pack for 2.5 hours&#8230; We have been using an old ATX power supply to power the drive on a tether and a quick google introduced the &#8220;paperclip trick&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.happycapsule.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.happycapsule.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.happycapsule.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.happycapsule.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.happycapsule.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.happycapsule.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.happycapsule.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.happycapsule.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.happycapsule.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}