{"id":89,"date":"2006-10-23T23:00:25","date_gmt":"2006-10-23T22:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mohoyt.com\/index.php\/2006\/10\/23\/general-stuffs\/"},"modified":"2011-04-27T11:18:31","modified_gmt":"2011-04-27T10:18:31","slug":"general-stuffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mohoyt.com\/blog\/2006\/general-stuffs\/","title":{"rendered":"General Stuffs&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some interesting things that I have found&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>The Make magazine (or Makezine) blog page <a href=\"http:\/\/www.makezine.com\/blog\/\">http:\/\/www.makezine.com\/blog\/<\/a> worth looking at as it has lots of crazy and cool things to spend your time attempting&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.evilmadscientist.com\">http:\/\/www.evilmadscientist.com<\/a> a nice site with more crazy things to spend your time doing&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And finally, for today&#8230; I was originally lookingat investing in a Basic Stamp 2 board and development thingy that enabled me to program small robot like things and so on, but as that was extortionally priced, I have now found an alternative, the Arduino. It is a cheaper board $32 as opposed to $119 and for the actual chip, $4 as opposed to $50, so definitely more worthwhile investing in. It is also open source, so it would be much better too, as it also runs natively on Mac (including Intel Mac I am led to believe) but if you&#8217;re remotely interested, check it out&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/todbot.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/25\/arduino-the-basic-stamp-killer\/\">http:\/\/todbot.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/25\/arduino-the-basic-stamp-killer\/<\/a> for a simple independant overview and here for the main site&#8230;<a href=\" http:\/\/www.arduino.cc\/\"> http:\/\/www.arduino.cc\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some interesting things that I have found&#8230; The Make magazine (or Makezine) blog page http:\/\/www.makezine.com\/blog\/ worth looking at as it has lots of crazy and cool things to spend your time attempting&#8230; Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories &#8211; http:\/\/www.evilmadscientist.com a nice site with more crazy things to spend your time doing&#8230; And finally, for today&#8230; I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mohoyt.com\/blog\/2006\/general-stuffs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;General Stuffs&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[64,65],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-stuff","tag-arduino","tag-make","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohoyt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohoyt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohoyt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohoyt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohoyt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mohoyt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":540,"href":"https:\/\/mohoyt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions\/540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohoyt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohoyt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohoyt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}