{"id":9510,"date":"2007-03-27T23:51:59","date_gmt":"2007-03-27T23:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=9510"},"modified":"2007-03-27T23:51:59","modified_gmt":"2007-03-27T23:51:59","slug":"building-a-lego-autopilot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9510","title":{"rendered":"Building a LEGO Autopilot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/andersonAutoPilot2.jpg\"><\/center> <\/p>\n<p> Last week, we <a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/modules.php?op=modload&#038;name=News&#038;file=article&#038;sid=1705\" target=\"new\">blogged<\/a> about Wired&#8217;s Chris Anderson and his efforts to build a robot autopilot out of LEGO Mindstorms NXT and other reasonably-cheap, available parts. HiTechnic, makers of the NXT Compass and other third-party sensors, read Chris&#8217;s post and sent him a prototype of their NXT Gyro module. He <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/geekdad\/2007\/03\/installing_the_.html\" target=\"new\">blogs<\/a> about installing his prototype autopilot set-up in a model R\/C plane. <\/p>\n<p> The post is on a new Wired Blogs site called <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/geekdad\/\" target=\"new\">GeekDad<\/a>, which already has some really cool content from (besides Chris) Kevin Kelly, Thomas Hawk, Adam Grosser, and others. <\/p>\n<p> Kinda makes me wish my son wasn&#8217;t all grown up, but luckily, I raised him to be a proper geek, so he (like his dad) would likely still be enthused about much of what&#8217;s found here. Like <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/geekdad\/2007\/03\/naked_model_roc.html\" target=\"new\">launching rocket motors<\/a> sans rocket. Now what geek ever gets too old for that? <\/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>Last week, we blogged about Wired&#8217;s Chris Anderson and his efforts to build a robot autopilot out of LEGO Mindstorms NXT and other reasonably-cheap, available parts. HiTechnic, makers of the NXT Compass and other third-party sensors, read Chris&#8217;s post and sent him a prototype of their NXT Gyro module. He blogs about installing his prototype &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9510\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Building a LEGO Autopilot&#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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hobbies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9510","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=9510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}