{"id":206,"date":"2008-04-30T18:12:36","date_gmt":"2008-05-01T02:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/?p=206"},"modified":"2008-04-30T18:12:36","modified_gmt":"2008-05-01T02:12:36","slug":"university-of-northern-iowa-mini-sumo-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/?p=206","title":{"rendered":"University of Northern Iowa Mini Sumo Event"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tomorrow (May 1st) the University of Northern Iowa is hosting their 3rd annual “ship in” mini sumo event where they invite people to mail their robot off for competition against students and others.<\/p>\n

I’ve sent them The Thin Man<\/a> for competition this year, we’ll see how well it works (or doesn’t work). My robot is a tad bit complicated to operate and even though I’ve written very detailed instructions as well as made a small video of the operation, I worry. Rick Brooks (maker of ExSpurt<\/a>, also competing in the event for the second year in a row) likens the experience to your children: you send them off on their own and hope things go well…<\/p>\n

The event will have live video broadcast starting at 9am CET and can be viewed with RealPlayer. Visit this page<\/a> to download the RealPlayer media file (check the upper right corner of the page). If you miss the live broadcast then be sure to look for the replay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tomorrow (May 1st) the University of Northern Iowa is hosting their 3rd annual “ship in” mini sumo event where they invite people to mail their robot off for competition against students and others. I’ve sent them The Thin Man for competition this year, we’ll see how well it works (or doesn’t work). My robot is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[27],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robots","tag-mini-sumo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}