{"id":1348,"date":"2010-12-08T21:13:57","date_gmt":"2010-12-08T22:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trickartt.com\/notes\/?p=1348"},"modified":"2018-11-19T16:24:49","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T16:24:49","slug":"a-mauve-car-detector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/2010\/12\/a-mauve-car-detector\/","title":{"rendered":"A Mauve Car Detector"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"embed-container\" style=\"padding-bottom: 75%; margin-top: 1em;\"><iframe  src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/JTMjDc6aBso\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>This is a short video my Grandpa made this weekend, as an entry for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/bbcone\/wallaceandgromit\/competition\/\">this BBC competition<\/a>, demonstrating the system he devised for detecting whether my Gran&#8217;s car was in the garage or not. <\/p>\n<p>This is far from his first invention; it accompanies his remote controlled garage door opener, for example, which long-predates the commercial kind. His system is, like the mauve car detector, made out of wire coat-hangers and other household stuffs. His genius even lent itself to one of my most reputable album covers, as I <a href=\"http:\/\/trickartt.com\/notes\/2006\/08\/quarter\/\">mentioned on this blog at the time<\/a>, by offering me engineering advice on how to make the lights from the Now More Than Ever artwork.<\/p>\n<p>When he sent this video through to the family this weekend, we were all taken aback by how brilliant it is. My dad hit the nail on the head: &#8220;It helps to explain so much about me, you, my life and pretty much everything!&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s why I&#8217;m posting it here!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a short video my Grandpa made this weekend, as an entry for this BBC competition, demonstrating the system he devised for detecting whether my Gran&#8217;s car was in the garage or not. This is far from his first invention; it accompanies his remote controlled garage door opener, for example, which long-predates the commercial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[159,158],"class_list":["post-1348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration","tag-inventions","tag-papa"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pC5Eo-lK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1348"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3513,"href":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348\/revisions\/3513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}