{"id":170,"date":"2011-05-03T20:20:54","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T01:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inanimatereason.com\/blog\/?p=170"},"modified":"2011-05-03T20:20:54","modified_gmt":"2011-05-04T01:20:54","slug":"battlebots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inanimatereason.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/battlebots\/","title":{"rendered":"Battlebots!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The kids in my after school program at <a href=\"http:\/\/macfarlanepark.mysdhc.org\/\" class=\"extlink\">MacFarLane Park IB Elementary<\/a> have been hard at work building their Battlebots! We&#8217;ve had weekly competitions and the kids have come a long way. They started the project with plans for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nxtprograms.com\/five_minute_bot\/index.html\" class=\"extlink\">Five Minute Bot<\/a> and took it from there to make formidable competitors. They&#8217;ve designed offensive weapons, defensive strategies, and integrated a number of MINDSTORMS sensors into their bots to help them find and defeat opponents.<\/p>\n<p>The competition field is our FLL table with last season&#8217;s vinyl mat but no mission models to get in the way. The last robot in one piece or not overpowered by another bot is the winner.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the competitors!<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-170 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/inanimatereason.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/battlebots\/20110502battlebot01\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/inanimatereason.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/20110502battlebot01.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/inanimatereason.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/20110502battlebot01.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/inanimatereason.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/20110502battlebot01.jpg?zoom=2&amp;resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/inanimatereason.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/battlebots\/20110502battlebot02\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/inanimatereason.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/20110502battlebot02.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/inanimatereason.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/20110502battlebot02.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/inanimatereason.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/20110502battlebot02.jpg?zoom=2&amp;resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/inanimatereason.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/battlebots\/20110502battlebot03\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/inanimatereason.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/20110502battlebot03.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/inanimatereason.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/20110502battlebot03.jpg?w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/inanimatereason.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/20110502battlebot03.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/inanimatereason.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/20110502battlebot03.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/inanimatereason.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/battlebots\/20110502battlebot04\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/inanimatereason.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/20110502battlebot04.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/inanimatereason.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/20110502battlebot04.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/inanimatereason.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/20110502battlebot04.jpg?zoom=2&amp;resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/inanimatereason.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/battlebots\/20110502battlebot05\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/inanimatereason.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/20110502battlebot05.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/inanimatereason.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/20110502battlebot05.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/inanimatereason.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/20110502battlebot05.jpg?zoom=2&amp;resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The kids in my after school program at MacFarLane Park IB Elementary have been hard at work building their Battlebots! We&#8217;ve had weekly competitions and the kids have come a long way. They started the project with plans for the Five Minute Bot and took it from there to make formidable competitors. They&#8217;ve designed offensive &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/inanimatereason.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/battlebots\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Battlebots!<\/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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1yjzF-2K","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inanimatereason.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inanimatereason.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inanimatereason.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inanimatereason.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inanimatereason.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/inanimatereason.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179,"href":"https:\/\/inanimatereason.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions\/179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inanimatereason.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inanimatereason.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inanimatereason.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}