{"id":9311,"date":"2006-11-15T19:44:41","date_gmt":"2006-11-15T19:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=9311"},"modified":"2006-11-15T19:44:41","modified_gmt":"2006-11-15T19:44:41","slug":"solarbotics-announces-mousebot-kit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9311","title":{"rendered":"Solarbotics Announces Mousebot Kit!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"280\" align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/herbieMousebot.jpg\">Our pals over at Solarbotics have just announced an awesome new robot kit, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.solarbotics.com\/products\/index.php?search_id=1064#\" target=\"new\">Herbie the Mousebot<\/a> (US$40). The kit uses the Herbie circuit, first developed by Randy Sargent at MIT, and used in several modded versions, including my &#8220;Mousey the Junkbot&#8221; project from my <a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/robotbook\/\" target=\"new\">robot book<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.makezine.com\/02\/mousebot\/index.csp?keywords=forceadmin&#038;page=last&#038;x-order=date\" target=\"new\">MAKE Vol. 2<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p> This kit looks really cool, adding a mouse-like PCB body that will tickle kids and terrify the housepets. The traditional Herbie circuit has also been modded to include two tactile whiskers in the front and a touch-sensitive tail so that it can work its way out of tight spots. <\/p>\n<p> A portion of sales of Herbie will be donated to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kipr.org\/\" target=\"new\">KISS Institute for Practical Robotics<\/a>, an org that Randy Sargent is involved with, which uses robotics to get kids excited about science, technology, engineering and math. <\/p>\n<p> This kit would make the perfect gift for a kid, or anyone, who&#8217;s interested in electronics and robotics, but maybe not confident enough to build a similar project from separate components. Solarbotics is taking pre-orders now and will ship kits out on November 24th. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digg.com\/submit\" target=\"new\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/img\/badges\/91x17-digg-button-alt.gif\" width=\"91\" height=\"17\" alt=\"Digg!\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our pals over at Solarbotics have just announced an awesome new robot kit, Herbie the Mousebot (US$40). The kit uses the Herbie circuit, first developed by Randy Sargent at MIT, and used in several modded versions, including my &#8220;Mousey the Junkbot&#8221; project from my robot book and MAKE Vol. 2. This kit looks really cool, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9311\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Solarbotics Announces Mousebot Kit!&#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-9311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9311","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=9311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}