{"id":592,"date":"2012-05-07T13:34:29","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T03:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/?p=592"},"modified":"2016-09-09T09:28:48","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T09:28:48","slug":"lophilo-swarm-robots-and-r2d2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/2012\/05\/lophilo-swarm-robots-and-r2d2\/","title":{"rendered":"Lophilo, Swarm Robots and R2D2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Xinchejian hackerspace is still settling in to their new space, but there was a lot of activity on the weekend!<\/p>\n<p>Things that I noticed included many active projects undergoing design work, coding and assembling a quadcopter (commiserations on the maiden flight crash) and first timers playing with Arduino.<\/p>\n<p>Highlights for me were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>getting hands on a real <a title=\"Lophilo open source Linux FPGA development board\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lophilo.com\/\">Lophilo<\/a> &#8211; this development hardware looks extremely professional, flexible, and is not &#8220;vapourware&#8221;&#8230; can&#8217;t wait to own one!<\/li>\n<li>Swarm Robots meeting &#8211; lots of really interesting ideas<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Swarm robots wiki\" href=\"http:\/\/wiki.xinchejian.com\/wiki\/Swarm_robots\">Swarm wiki<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Xinchejian Shangai hackerspace - mailing list\" href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/xinchejian\/\">Mailing list<\/a><\/li>\n<li>plus you do need to be a paid up member to participate (gotta pay the rent!)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li><a title=\"R2D2\" href=\"http:\/\/letsmakerobots.com\/user\/14721\/pages\/robot\">R2D2<\/a> was at the swarm meeting &#8211; just too cute not to give a special mention<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xinchejian hackerspace is still settling in to their new space, but there was a lot of activity on the weekend! Things that I noticed included many active projects undergoing design work, coding and assembling a quadcopter (commiserations on the maiden flight crash) and first timers playing with Arduino. Highlights for me were: getting hands on &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/2012\/05\/lophilo-swarm-robots-and-r2d2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lophilo, Swarm Robots and R2D2&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,12,13],"tags":[44,63,69],"class_list":["post-592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devices","category-community","category-news","category-open-source","tag-inspiration","tag-robot","tag-swarm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1361,"href":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions\/1361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}