{"id":22073,"date":"2024-09-13T11:35:15","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T18:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/?p=22073"},"modified":"2024-09-13T11:36:27","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T18:36:27","slug":"can-you-use-vernier-photogates-with-the-pasco-mini-launcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/22073","title":{"rendered":"Can you use Vernier Photogates with the Pasco Mini Launcher?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pasco Mini Launcher (ME-6825B) has an optional accessory bracket, designed to all students to attach Pasco photogates to the end of the launcher. This accessory bracket is designed to fit only Pasco photogates.<\/p>\n<p>If you have access to a 3D printer, you can print a bracket that attaches to the accessory bracket to allow students to use <a href=\"\/product\/photogate\/\">Photogate<\/a> (<nobr>VPG-BTD<\/nobr>) instead. Printed in brown filament in the photos below, the bracket requires M3x20 bolts with nuts to attach the adapter to the Pasco photogate mounting bracket, and 1\/4&#8243;x20 bolts with nuts to attach the photogates to the printed bracket.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"558\" height=\"715\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/09\/IMG_6696.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22075\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/09\/IMG_6696.jpg 558w, https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/09\/IMG_6696-468x600.jpg 468w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"672\" height=\"707\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/09\/IMG_6697.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22076\" style=\"width:672px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/09\/IMG_6697.jpg 672w, https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/09\/IMG_6697-570x600.jpg 570w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 672px) 100vw, 672px\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1008\" height=\"756\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/09\/IMG_6699.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22077\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/09\/IMG_6699.jpg 1008w, https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/09\/IMG_6699-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/09\/IMG_6699-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/09\/IMG_6699-381x285.jpg 381w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1008px) 100vw, 1008px\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>You can download a STL file for the adapter here:<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-f6c73e3b-5fe8-4260-a2e5-d04ef92cf0f8\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/09\/V6-Vernier-photogate-Pasco-launcher-bracket.stl.zip\">V6 Vernier photogate Pasco launcher bracket.stl<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/09\/V6-Vernier-photogate-Pasco-launcher-bracket.stl.zip\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-f6c73e3b-5fe8-4260-a2e5-d04ef92cf0f8\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/til\/1449\/\">Are Vernier and Pasco products compatible?<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pasco Mini Launcher (ME-6825B) has an optional accessory bracket, designed to all students to attach Pasco photogates to the end of the launcher. This&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":100811,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[352,491,1281],"class_list":["post-22073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-pasco","tag-photogate","tag-vpg-btd"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/100811"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}