{"id":47,"date":"2007-05-09T17:53:20","date_gmt":"2007-05-09T17:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.tola.me.uk\/blog\/2007\/05\/09\/robot-race-in-the-press\/"},"modified":"2007-05-09T17:53:20","modified_gmt":"2007-05-09T17:53:20","slug":"robot_race_in_the_press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/2007\/05\/09\/robot_race_in_the_press\/","title":{"rendered":"Robot Race in the Press"},"content":{"rendered":"

The robot race mentioned in my last post was featured in the Birmingham Post and the Birmingham Mail yesterday. The Birmingham Mail has a couple of pictures of me looking like a goon cheering on the robot in the semi-final.<\/p>\n

\"Birmingham<\/a><\/p>\n

It's not very clear in this bad copy, but that's a nice clean head on picture of the HD DVD crack code published in a Birmingham newspaper. Mission accomplished \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

I've uploaded a grainy video<\/a> of the final moment of that race, when our (much slower but more reliable) robot crawls past the opponent which keeps going round in circles with a burnt out motor.<\/p>\n

There's also a video of the robot completing a full lap<\/a>, note the lecturer towards the end asking what the number on the front of the robot is and us trying to claim that it's just a random number. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The robot race mentioned in my last post was featured in the Birmingham Post and the Birmingham Mail yesterday. The Birmingham Mail has a couple of pictures of me looking like a goon cheering on the robot in the semi-final. It's not very clear in this bad copy, but that's a nice clean head on … Continue reading Robot Race in the Press<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}