{"id":9364,"date":"2006-12-19T22:46:49","date_gmt":"2006-12-19T22:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=9364"},"modified":"2006-12-19T22:46:49","modified_gmt":"2006-12-19T22:46:49","slug":"how-to-build-a-usb-controlled-push-puppet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9364","title":{"rendered":"How-To: Build a USB-Controlled &#8220;Push Puppet&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/linuxPushPuppet.jpg\">Back in July, we brought you <a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/modules.php?op=modload&#038;name=News&#038;file=article&#038;sid=1259\" target=\"new\">news<\/a> of the Availabot, a concept project for a physical avatar, a puppet, that was upright when you were online (in IM) and limp when you weren&#8217;t. Belgian hardware hacker Pierre-Philippe Coupard has <a href=\"http:\/\/users.skynet.be\/ppc\/push_puppet_toy\/\" target=\"new\">put together<\/a> a Linux-controlled IM &#8220;push-puppet&#8221; of his own, and shows you how he did it. <\/p>\n<p> [Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hackaday.com\" target=\"new\">hackAday<\/a>] <\/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>Back in July, we brought you news of the Availabot, a concept project for a physical avatar, a puppet, that was upright when you were online (in IM) and limp when you weren&#8217;t. Belgian hardware hacker Pierre-Philippe Coupard has put together a Linux-controlled IM &#8220;push-puppet&#8221; of his own, and shows you how he did it. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9364\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How-To: Build a USB-Controlled &#8220;Push Puppet&#8221;&#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-9364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9364","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=9364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}