{"id":1171,"date":"2015-04-21T11:14:15","date_gmt":"2015-04-21T15:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=1171"},"modified":"2015-04-21T11:36:45","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T15:36:45","slug":"missing-the-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=1171","title":{"rendered":"Missing the Point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I missed the point of today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/doodles\/81st-anniversary-of-the-loch-ness-monsters-most-famous-photograph\">Google Doodle<\/a> because I was so busy looking at the gears and never saw the monster&#8217;s head above water. One of my current making projects is to build an automaton. I want to use it to make my Strawbees amusement park ride turn around:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/therichardsons\/15933093931\" title=\"Amuse Yourself by Karen and Bob Richardson, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7464\/15933093931_9328de7898_q.jpg?resize=150%2C150&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" alt=\"Amuse Yourself\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have two prototypes but neither one works very well. I started with this post from <a href=\"http:\/\/makezine.com\/projects\/make-cardboard-automata\/\">Makezine<\/a> and then checked out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.exploratorium.edu\/pie\/downloads\/Cardboard_Automata.pdf\">Exploratorium site<\/a> as well. I think my main issue is with using kabob skewers that are hard to attach to the cam and cam follower. I&#8217;m on the hunt for bamboo skewers and will also dig out the glue gun to just make everything a bit sturdier. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I missed the point of today&#8217;s Google Doodle because I was so busy looking at the gears and never saw the monster&#8217;s head above water. One of my current making projects is to build an automaton. I want to use it to make my Strawbees amusement park ride turn around: I have two prototypes but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=1171\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Missing the Point<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22,44,55],"tags":[344,343],"class_list":["post-1171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-technology","category-tinkering","tag-automaton","tag-making"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4X3L0-iT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1171"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1175,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171\/revisions\/1175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}