{"id":1555,"date":"2011-09-04T02:08:01","date_gmt":"2011-09-04T06:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.etotheipiplusone.net\/?p=1555"},"modified":"2011-09-04T02:08:01","modified_gmt":"2011-09-04T06:08:01","slug":"pop-quiz-pre-event-smackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etotheipiplusone.net\/?p=1555","title":{"rendered":"Pop Quiz Pre-Event Smackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After obtaining 4 set screws, I put PQ2r2 together for the final shakedown test.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/09nZU4gfjng\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Okay, so it turned out to be more of a shakedown than I thought. The blade is just off balance and possibly just tilted in-robot enough to cause the sudden instability and &#8220;popping&#8221; in the video. To mitigate this, I&#8217;d have to spin up just before approaching an opponent.<\/p>\n<p>Because of the missing battery half, the robot only weighs 13 ounces. It&#8217;s fairly maneuverable with the four Sanyo style gearmotors and soft wheels, so I hope if it&#8217;s too light to be an effective spinner it can still get under people and shove them around.<\/p>\n<p>Microbattles event in about 10 hours!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After obtaining 4 set screws, I put PQ2r2 together for the final shakedown test. Okay, so it turned out to be more of a shakedown than I thought. The blade is just off balance and possibly just tilted in-robot enough to cause the sudden instability and &#8220;popping&#8221; in the video. To mitigate this, I&#8217;d have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bots","category-pop-quiz-2-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etotheipiplusone.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etotheipiplusone.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etotheipiplusone.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etotheipiplusone.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etotheipiplusone.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.etotheipiplusone.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1556,"href":"https:\/\/www.etotheipiplusone.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555\/revisions\/1556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etotheipiplusone.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etotheipiplusone.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etotheipiplusone.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}