{"id":9546,"date":"2007-04-28T21:30:40","date_gmt":"2007-04-28T21:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=9546"},"modified":"2007-04-28T21:30:40","modified_gmt":"2007-04-28T21:30:40","slug":"mouseys-smarter-nephew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9546","title":{"rendered":"Mousey&#8217;s Smarter Nephew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" border=1 src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/opticalMousebot.jpg\"><\/center> <\/p>\n<p> Don&#8217;t you hate it when the next generation shows up its elders? While trawling Flickr for pics of <a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/robotbook\/mousey.html\">Mousey the Junkbot<\/a> builds, I bumped into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tacoman\/317490814\/\" target=\"new\">this mousebot<\/a>, one built from an optical mouse. It repurposes the optics for dead-reckoning navigation. It also has an IR sensor, bump sensors, a serial radio link, charge-monitor, and self-charger contacts that mate with a base station. Total cost: about US$30 in parts. Maybe I&#8217;ll try and track the builder down and get him to tell us more. <\/p>\n<p> BTW: The original Mousey is making the rounds. He just got back yesterday from a trip to an art museum in Chicago, where he was representing MAKE in a show about the history of DIY. Ah&#8230; to be young and globetrotting&#8230; <\/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>Don&#8217;t you hate it when the next generation shows up its elders? While trawling Flickr for pics of Mousey the Junkbot builds, I bumped into this mousebot, one built from an optical mouse. It repurposes the optics for dead-reckoning navigation. It also has an IR sensor, bump sensors, a serial radio link, charge-monitor, and self-charger &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9546\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mousey&#8217;s Smarter Nephew&#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-9546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9546","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=9546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}