{"id":302,"date":"2017-11-21T10:16:02","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T15:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.network1.net\/?p=302"},"modified":"2017-11-21T10:16:02","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T15:16:02","slug":"robots-in-the-attic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.network1.net\/?p=302","title":{"rendered":"Robots in the Attic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A question for the tinkerers and Makers among you and for those of you catering to the makers in your customer base: Do You Have a Robot in Your Attic?<\/p>\n<p>You may look at old computer and A\/V equipment (VCRs, cassette players, out of date computers) and see a pile of junk. Hobbyists interested in IoT (the Internet of Things) see power supplies, LCD displays, motors, gears and a raft of components that can be used in robotics and all manner of other projects. Where do they get their inspiration? Check out \u2026<\/p>\n<p>The Ben Heck Show at Element 14, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.element14.com\/community\/community\/experts\/benheck\">https:\/\/www.element14.com\/community\/community\/experts\/benheck<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Articles and projects at Makezine (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.makezine.com\">http:\/\/www.makezine.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Or the educational videos by engineer Limor \u201cLadyada\u201d Freid on Adafruit (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.adafruit.com\">http:\/\/www.adafruit.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Your local \u201cmaker\u201d community may be your most loyal customer base and the source of your future employees! Enjoy your summer, be safe and \u2026 Make!<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Stephen C. Walter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A question for the tinkerers and Makers among you and for those of you catering to the makers in your customer base: Do You Have a Robot in Your Attic? You may look at old computer and A\/V equipment (VCRs, cassette players, out of date computers) and see a pile of junk. Hobbyists interested in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.network1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.network1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.network1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.network1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.network1.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.network1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304,"href":"https:\/\/blog.network1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions\/304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.network1.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.network1.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.network1.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}