{"id":9382,"date":"2007-01-02T22:55:52","date_gmt":"2007-01-02T22:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=9382"},"modified":"2007-01-02T22:55:52","modified_gmt":"2007-01-02T22:55:52","slug":"solarroller-and-other-cool-bots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9382","title":{"rendered":"Solarroller and other Cool Bots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" align=\"right\" valign=\"top\" src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/flexiRoller.jpg\">Simon Fraser is a programmer who works at Apple, on the Quicktime Apps Team. His very well put together <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smfr.org\/robots\/\" target=\"new\">BEAM robot site<\/a> has some very cool builds, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smfr.org\/robots\/roller.html\" target=\"new\">this<\/a> Solarroller which uses flexible solar paneling to power the bot. For the power circuit, it uses the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beam-wiki.org\/wiki\/index.php?title=Miller_Solar_Engine\" target=\"new\">Miller Solar Engine<\/a> I discussed in my BEAM articles in Vol. 6 of MAKE. <\/p>\n<p> [Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.solarbotics.com\" target=\"new\">Solarbotics<\/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>Simon Fraser is a programmer who works at Apple, on the Quicktime Apps Team. His very well put together BEAM robot site has some very cool builds, including this Solarroller which uses flexible solar paneling to power the bot. For the power circuit, it uses the Miller Solar Engine I discussed in my BEAM articles &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9382\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Solarroller and other Cool Bots&#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-9382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9382","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=9382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}