{"id":8174,"date":"2003-12-14T10:05:41","date_gmt":"2003-12-14T10:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=8174"},"modified":"2003-12-14T10:05:41","modified_gmt":"2003-12-14T10:05:41","slug":"splatbot-origins-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8174","title":{"rendered":"SplatBot Origins Revealed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/slatbot.jpg\" align=\"left\"><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the only involvement I can claim in this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ottawarobotics.org\/paintball.html\">Splatbot<\/a> project is having planted the initial seed of the idea at the one-and-only ORE meeting I have attended to date.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s robots dualing robots with paint-ball guns!<\/p>\n<p> <i>Posted by Tekmage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Message 457 of 5019<br \/> <b>From:<\/b> Andrew Plumb<br \/> <b>Date:<\/b> Wed May 30, 2001 9:10 am<br \/> <b>Subject:<\/b> RE: [ORE_bits] RE: BattleBots<\/p>\n<p> Rather than hazardous industrial\/destructive techniques, why not make the bots sumo+paintball? It would open up some additional options, namely bot vs. human in paintball arenas and terrain. The focus can then be more on speed, dexterity and autonomy; a safer testing and training ground for future BattleBots.<\/p>\n<p> I was browsing through the Canadian Tire catalog the other day and they have a paintball section&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p> Thoughts?<\/p>\n<p> Andrew. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=right>&#8230;and the rest, as they say, was history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}