{"id":3670,"date":"2020-08-25T16:56:05","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T15:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/?p=3670"},"modified":"2021-01-07T11:53:28","modified_gmt":"2021-01-07T11:53:28","slug":"my-solar-robot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/2020\/08\/my-solar-robot\/","title":{"rendered":"My Solar Robot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/robot-on-sill.jpg\" alt=\"My solar robot, sitting on the windowsill, harvesting sunlite\" width=\"100%\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3671\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/robot-on-sill.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/robot-on-sill-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/robot-on-sill-250x250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/robot-on-sill-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/robot-on-sill-570x570.jpg 570w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If anybody else is still out there blogging in 2020, I\u2019m sure the last thing anyone needs is a post about the impact of Coronavirus and the public lockdowns that have ensued. I have to acknowledge it though, and stress that I\u2019m trying to not take for granted the fact that I\u2019ve been doing quite well under the circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>I told my dad on a phone call earlier this summer that it\u2019s the introvert\u2019s time to shine: working from home is how I\u2019ve always done it, and doing things like trying to work out cycle routes where I would encounter as few other people as possible is exactly my kind of task.<\/p>\n<p>I haven\u2019t let my foot off the creative accelerator either. It\u2019s physically small, but my biggest personal project this summer has been a robot I have made out of some tiny solar panels I ordered from China, a can of chickpeas, and a tiny little computer. <\/p>\n<p>All he does is rotate his arms to collect power, so he can use that power to rotate his arms again the next day: a perfectly useless little machine!<\/p>\n<p>The project took a couple of months of simmering, and I made a nice little video of the project. A few recent experiences have encouraged me to get over the hump of the sound of my own voice, so I have narrated this video, and I think I\u2019ve done a nice job! I\u2019m proud of the little robot, and proud of the video I\u2019ve made, so I\u2019d love for you to give a couple of minutes to watch it.<\/p>\n<style>.embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }<\/style>\n<div class='embed-container'><iframe src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/-TonPJiGjSA' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If anybody else is still out there blogging in 2020, I\u2019m sure the last thing anyone needs is a post about the impact of Coronavirus and the public lockdowns that have ensued. I have to acknowledge it though, and stress that I\u2019m trying to not take for granted the fact that I\u2019ve been doing quite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3671,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[15,5],"tags":[798,801,797,795,796,800,13,794,793,792,799],"class_list":["post-3670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hand-made","category-rubbish","tag-arduino","tag-arduino-pro-mini","tag-can-of-chickpeas","tag-canned-food","tag-chickpeas","tag-making-a-robot","tag-robot","tag-solar","tag-solar-panels","tag-solar-power","tag-vlog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/robot-on-sill.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pC5Eo-Xc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3670"}],"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=3670"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3709,"href":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3670\/revisions\/3709"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}