{"id":8631,"date":"2005-10-21T17:06:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-21T17:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=8631"},"modified":"2005-10-21T17:06:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-21T17:06:00","slug":"latest-bot-kit-from-solarbotics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8631","title":{"rendered":"Latest Bot Kit From Solarbotics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"230\" align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/turbot.jpg\"> Our buds over at Solarbotics have released a nifty new kit, called the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.solarbotics.com\/products\/index.php?scdfa-250100084-viewDetail-productzq31031zq4categoryzq31=true\" target=\"new\">Turbot (US$60)<\/a>. As BEAM enthusiasts know, a turbot is a relatively primitive, (often) tetrahedron-shaped bot that lumbers around on (usually) two long, twisting arms. While many turbots are rather brutish, persistently &#8220;attacking&#8221; other bots (or your foot), the Solarbotics Turbot has added a motor stall detector circuit, so the bot will back off and go on about its stone-age business after a few seconds of flailing against your Chuck Taylors.<\/p>\n<p> Dave at Solarbotics was kind enough to send Street Tech a review copy of the Turbot and we plan on a full review as soon as we have the critter built. I&#8217;m excited about this kit after having built the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.solarbotics.com\/products\/index.php?scdfa-250100084-viewDetail-productzq3728zq4categoryzq31=true\" target=\"new\">Solarbotics Sumovore<\/a> for a review in the latest issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0596100817\/streettech-20\" target=\"new\">Make<\/a> (No. 4). That kit was first rate and really fun to put together, so I expect the same from this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our buds over at Solarbotics have released a nifty new kit, called the Turbot (US$60). As BEAM enthusiasts know, a turbot is a relatively primitive, (often) tetrahedron-shaped bot that lumbers around on (usually) two long, twisting arms. While many turbots are rather brutish, persistently &#8220;attacking&#8221; other bots (or your foot), the Solarbotics Turbot has added &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8631\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Latest Bot Kit From Solarbotics&#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":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8631","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=8631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}