{"id":10597,"date":"2021-07-26T02:49:09","date_gmt":"2021-07-26T02:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/?p=10597"},"modified":"2021-07-26T02:49:09","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T02:49:09","slug":"the-nosy-monsters-big-brother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/?p=10597","title":{"rendered":"The Nosy Monster&#8217;s Big Brother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every time I throw the <a href=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/?s=nosy+monster\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nosy Monster<\/a> outside, it can&#8217;t handle even the best cut grass. The wheels just don&#8217;t cut it. So I finally splurged and got a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sparkfun.com\/products\/11056\">Wild Thumper from SparkFun<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/IMG_4462.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10598\" src=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/IMG_4462-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a million things I&#8217;d like to do with it, and I don&#8217;t know how many I&#8217;ll get to. But at the very least, I&#8217;d love to have the vehicle able to go outside. WiFi goes pretty far around the house, and it so it would have a nice range of operation.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d love to set it up so random people on the internet can pilot it. Maybe via some sort of voting system.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d love for it to be energy autonomous with a solar panel.<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;d love for it to be able to take some rain and snow.<\/p>\n<p>The later is unlikely to happen, the rest very well may over time. Ultimately, this will be a better setup allowing for more development.<\/p>\n<p>The Nosy Monster will remain in its current funny form. We&#8217;ll need to find a cool name for this new one, but I want to see what it looks like when it&#8217;s done first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every time I throw the Nosy Monster outside, it can&#8217;t handle even the best cut grass. The wheels just don&#8217;t cut it. So I finally splurged and got a Wild Thumper from SparkFun. There&#8217;s a million things I&#8217;d like to do with it, and I don&#8217;t know how many I&#8217;ll get to. But at the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/?p=10597\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Nosy Monster&#8217;s Big Brother&#8221;<\/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":[33,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-i-t"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}