{"id":26,"date":"2006-02-06T11:37:11","date_gmt":"2006-02-06T16:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/2006\/02\/06\/six270\/"},"modified":"2006-02-06T11:37:11","modified_gmt":"2006-02-06T16:37:11","slug":"six270","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/2006\/02\/06\/six270","title":{"rendered":"Circumstances Beyond My Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent the month of January working on MIT&#8217;s autonomous robotics competition, <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/6.270\/www\/\">6.270<\/a>. The chassis was made with Lego, with a big collapsable arm on the front and a more than passing resemblance to a certain Star Wars character. We dubbed it &#8220;Admiral Ackbot&#8221;, and had planned to yell &#8220;it&#8217;s a trap!&#8221; during the final competition. Unfortunately, due to a blown component on our microcontroller, the robot would spontaneously reboot, causing the loss of our first two rounds and our elimination from the contest. I feel that our design and strategy would have gotten us pretty far, had our board actually worked. Another hard won engineering lesson&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Our witty team website, <a href=\"http:\/\/jlev.media.mit.edu\/tmp\/6.270\/ackbot.html\">Admiral Ackbot and the Mon Calamari Cruisers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent the month of January working on MIT&#8217;s autonomous robotics competition, 6.270. The chassis was made with Lego, with a big collapsable arm on the front and a more than passing resemblance to a certain Star Wars character. We dubbed it &#8220;Admiral Ackbot&#8221;, and had planned to yell &#8220;it&#8217;s a trap!&#8221; during the final [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[40],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston","tag-life"],"geo":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}