{"id":3667,"date":"2015-05-07T05:01:25","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T09:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.etotheipiplusone.net\/?p=3667"},"modified":"2015-05-13T20:01:55","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T00:01:55","slug":"the-return-of-battlebots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etotheipiplusone.net\/?p=3667","title":{"rendered":"The Return of BattleBots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re reading this, it means I&#8217;ve finally gotten approval to announce publicly my entry into the running for the 2016 Presidential Election. You are <em>all<\/em> boned now &#8211; mark my words.<\/p>\n<p>Just kidding. It&#8217;s <em>way better<\/em> than that. The &#8216;black project&#8217; of these past few months, in which my hand has been forced to not blog as it&#8217;s been happening, has been a entry into the <em><strong>NEW AND<\/strong><\/em><strong> IMPROVED<\/strong><strong>!<\/strong> season of <a href=\"http:\/\/battlebots.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">BattleBots<\/a> &#8211; the very show which threw me headlong into a career of engineering and designing things which are dubiously useful for society.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/battlebots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/feature-box-1140x629.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/battlebots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/feature-box-1140x629.jpg\" alt=\"babblebots\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some of you might have guessed it right away due to the combination of press packets and my radio silence. Along with a crew of select teammates (who I&#8217;m sure will document this adventure eventually), we&#8217;ve been too busy building something 10x larger than what we&#8217;re usually experienced in, with a timeline of only about 8 weeks total. I&#8217;ll just say that it&#8217;s literally a combination of three of our most successful and prolific designs. However, as a preview&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/pics\/bbq\/bbq1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/pics\/bbq\/bbq1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re in California (or otherwise) and want to attend the event, just go <a href=\"http:\/\/battlebots.com\/tickets\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> to buy tickets for the four sessions.<\/p>\n<p>The robot ships out in 4 days! Time to get back to machining&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re reading this, it means I&#8217;ve finally gotten approval to announce publicly my entry into the running for the 2016 Presidential Election. You are all boned now &#8211; mark my words. Just kidding. It&#8217;s way better than that. The &#8216;black project&#8217; of these past few months, in which my hand has been forced to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,99],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bots","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etotheipiplusone.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3667","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=3667"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.etotheipiplusone.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3677,"href":"https:\/\/www.etotheipiplusone.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3667\/revisions\/3677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etotheipiplusone.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etotheipiplusone.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etotheipiplusone.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}