{"id":1871,"date":"2007-02-04T17:21:43","date_gmt":"2007-02-04T22:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=1871"},"modified":"2007-02-04T21:11:49","modified_gmt":"2007-02-05T02:11:49","slug":"robots-and-radios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/robots-and-radios\/","title":{"rendered":"Robots and Radios"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just back from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moreheadplanetarium.org\/index.cfm?fuseaction=news_item&#038;id=371\">Legopalooza<\/a> at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moreheadplanetarium.org\/\">Morehead Science Center<\/a> where <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lugnet.com\/~1495\/brickjournal\">Joe Meno of BrickJournal<\/a> had a simple MindStorms robot running around a table. The robot has a sonar\/ultrasound\/bat-like radar sensor so that when it encountered an object it would reverse course and then turn in a random direction. The fun for kids of all ages was that we had to be the objects or the robot would run off the table. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.philohome.com\/nxtrover\/rover.htm\">It&#8217;s this one but without the camera part.<\/a> So the NXT spy rover without the spying part.]<br \/>\nYesterday Tucker helped build and put a second robot on the table. And today we returned with reinforcements, two other 13 year old boys, to create a third robot. One robot running around the table was amusing. Two on the table at once were hilarious. And three. That&#8217;s the right number for chaotic delight.<\/p>\n<p>We left and then took the boys to <a href=\"http:\/\/communityradio.coop\">WCOM<\/a> where they began <a href=\"http:\/\/wcomteenspirit.blogspot.com\/\">the Teen Spirit radio show<\/a> with an in-studio interview with <a href=\"http:\/\/theoldceremony.com\/\">Django Haskins and Josh Starmer<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/theoldceremony\">the Old Ceremony<\/a>. Django sang and played guitar while Josh played cello which led to some interesting sound engineering. The Old Ceremony is off for a couple of gigs opening for the Squirrel Nut Zippers and a trip to NYC.<\/p>\n<p>Later in the show, the teens did a phone interview with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.last.fm\/music\/OLSPUR\">electronic composer\/musician Olspur<\/a> who they discovered on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.last.fm\/\">LastFM.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Talk about different music and different interviews. Both went well and all seemed to have a great time. No known robots took part in the interviews.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just back from Legopalooza at the Morehead Science Center where Joe Meno of BrickJournal had a simple MindStorms robot running around a table. The robot has a sonar\/ultrasound\/bat-like radar sensor so that when it encountered an object it would reverse course and then turn in a random direction. The fun for kids of all ages [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amusements","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}