{"id":4,"date":"2011-03-20T17:01:37","date_gmt":"2011-03-20T17:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chris-stubbs.co.uk\/wp\/?p=4"},"modified":"2012-06-29T20:40:17","modified_gmt":"2012-06-29T19:40:17","slug":"usb-robot-instructables-robotics-week-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chris-stubbs.co.uk\/wp\/?p=4","title":{"rendered":"USB Robot *Instructables Robotics Week Winner*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>We won! The prize is a &#8220;Robotics starter pack&#8221;. Will post the contents when i get it!<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Update: The pack contained an Instructables badge and some stickers, 3 packs of &#8220;sugru&#8221; silicone putty and a copy of Autodesk SketchBook Pro! Thanks Instructables!<\/em><br \/>\nThis instructible will describe the processes required to build a system for interfacing with a robot (and the basics of building a robot) around the velleman K8055 USB interface board (availible online or at maplins) The robot is built mostly from scraps i had at home and parts from a car breakers yard the whole project cost around \u00a350 but will be much less if you have parts at home<\/p>\n<p>Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instructables.com\/id\/USB-Robot\/\">http:\/\/www.instructables.com\/id\/USB-Robot\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/by9wbc8tiP4\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We won! The prize is a &#8220;Robotics starter pack&#8221;. Will post the contents when i get it! Update: The pack contained an Instructables badge and some stickers, 3 packs of &#8220;sugru&#8221; silicone putty and a copy of Autodesk SketchBook Pro! &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chris-stubbs.co.uk\/wp\/?p=4\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diy","category-electronics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/chris-stubbs.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/robot-Copybanner.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris-stubbs.co.uk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris-stubbs.co.uk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris-stubbs.co.uk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris-stubbs.co.uk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris-stubbs.co.uk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/chris-stubbs.co.uk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31,"href":"https:\/\/chris-stubbs.co.uk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions\/31"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris-stubbs.co.uk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/66"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris-stubbs.co.uk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris-stubbs.co.uk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris-stubbs.co.uk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}