{"id":831,"date":"2012-09-16T11:51:41","date_gmt":"2012-09-16T01:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/?p=831"},"modified":"2016-09-09T09:27:56","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T09:27:56","slug":"swarm-robot-competition-entry-and-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/2012\/09\/swarm-robot-competition-entry-and-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"Swarm Robot competition entry and workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_833\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-833\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/udlocal1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/SwarmRobot-with-new-IR-shield-PCB.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-833\" title=\"SwarmRobot with new IR shield PCB\" src=\"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/udlocal1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/SwarmRobot-with-new-IR-shield-PCB-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"SwarmRobot with new IR shield PCB\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/SwarmRobot-with-new-IR-shield-PCB-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/SwarmRobot-with-new-IR-shield-PCB-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/SwarmRobot-with-new-IR-shield-PCB.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-833\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SwarmRobot with new IR shield PCB<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Just put in a huge effort to <a title=\"SwarmRobot AFRON competition entry\" href=\"http:\/\/wiki.xinchejian.com\/wiki\/Swarm_robots\/AFRON_$10_competition \">enter<\/a> the Xinchejian SwarmRobot into the <a title=\"Afron $10 robot challenge\" href=\"http:\/\/www.robotics-africa.org\/design_challenge.html\">AFRON<\/a> competition.<\/p>\n<p>Also used the assembly instructions created as part of the entry to help run a\u00a0 workshop with other Xinchejian members making SwarmRobots. The workshop was pretty successful, although our preparation was lacking a bit with an untested PCB that just arrived and was assembled for the first time during the workshop and a different power switch that did match the board!<\/p>\n<p>Definitely time for a more relaxed pace &#8211; exploring the <a title=\"Lophilo\" href=\"http:\/\/lophilo.com\">Lophilo<\/a> and a few other projects!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just put in a huge effort to enter the Xinchejian SwarmRobot into the AFRON competition. Also used the assembly instructions created as part of the entry to help run a\u00a0 workshop with other Xinchejian members making SwarmRobots. The workshop was pretty successful, although our preparation was lacking a bit with an untested PCB that just &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/2012\/09\/swarm-robot-competition-entry-and-workshop\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Swarm Robot competition entry and workshop&#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":[7,8,9,13],"tags":[36,51,63,69,81],"class_list":["post-831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-documentation","category-hardware","category-open-source","tag-competition","tag-lophilo","tag-robot","tag-swarm","tag-workshop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831","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=831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1345,"href":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions\/1345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}