{"id":9507,"date":"2007-03-26T15:52:40","date_gmt":"2007-03-26T15:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=9507"},"modified":"2007-03-26T15:52:40","modified_gmt":"2007-03-26T15:52:40","slug":"meet-the-steam-beetle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9507","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Steam Beetle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <center><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/steamBeetle.jpg\"><\/center> <\/p>\n<p> Our pal I-Wei of Crabfu has created <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crabfu.com\/steamtoys\/rc_steam_beetle\/\" target=\"new\">another amazing steam-driven contraption<\/a>, this one a &#8220;beetle&#8221; built on a Tamiya High-Lift Chassis and an aluminum sheet metal &#8220;shell.&#8221; He goes into a decent amount of detail on the construction, with lots of pics, and there&#8217;s also a video of the mechano-critter in action. Like all of I-Wei&#8217;s work, this vehicle is gorgeous, and includes such wonderful whimsical details as sheet-metal wings that open out to reveal the Cheddar Pegasus steam engine and steamworks underneath. <\/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 pal I-Wei of Crabfu has created another amazing steam-driven contraption, this one a &#8220;beetle&#8221; built on a Tamiya High-Lift Chassis and an aluminum sheet metal &#8220;shell.&#8221; He goes into a decent amount of detail on the construction, with lots of pics, and there&#8217;s also a video of the mechano-critter in action. Like all of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9507\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Meet the Steam Beetle&#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-9507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9507","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=9507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}