{"id":8439,"date":"2005-03-22T21:17:38","date_gmt":"2005-03-22T21:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=8439"},"modified":"2005-03-22T21:17:38","modified_gmt":"2005-03-22T21:17:38","slug":"robot-book-parts-bundles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8439","title":{"rendered":"Robot Book Parts Bundles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" valign=\"top\" src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/walker2.jpg\"> Our buds over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.solarbotics.com\" target=\"new\">Solarbotics<\/a> have finally put together special <a href=\"http:\/\/www.solarbotics.com\/products\/index.php?scdfa-250100084-viewDetail-productzq3952zq4categoryzq316=true&#038;group=abgm\" target=\"new\">parts bundles<\/a> for two of the three projects in my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0789729717\/streettech-20\" target=\"new\">Absolute Beginner&#8217;s Guide to Building Robots<\/a> book. The kit for the Coathanger Walker costs US$27.70 and the kit for Mousey the Junkbot goes for $19.60. These bundles do not include everything, so check your parts lists carefully. For instance, the Walker kit does not include the 40-tooth plastic gear and the Mousey kit doesn&#8217;t include a mouse. There are some bonuses though, such as a set of Solarbotics&#8217;s photodiode optical sensors for Mousey, which are likely more sensitive than the IR receivers that you&#8217;d pull from a mouse, as suggested in the book. The bundles also include a spool of Hydro-X solder, a fave among BEAM builders, including the Big God hisself, Mark Tilden.<\/p>\n<p> These bundles couldn&#8217;t have come out at a better time, as a version of the Mousey project is going to be published in the second issue of Make magazine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our buds over at Solarbotics have finally put together special parts bundles for two of the three projects in my Absolute Beginner&#8217;s Guide to Building Robots book. The kit for the Coathanger Walker costs US$27.70 and the kit for Mousey the Junkbot goes for $19.60. These bundles do not include everything, so check your parts &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8439\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Robot Book Parts Bundles&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8439","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}