{"id":17139,"date":"2016-01-29T12:31:07","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T16:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=17139"},"modified":"2016-01-29T23:22:01","modified_gmt":"2016-01-30T03:22:01","slug":"while-note-directly-radio-related","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/while-note-directly-radio-related\/","title":{"rendered":"While Not Directly Radio Related . .  ."},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"806\" height=\"453\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ixTddQQ2Hs4?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<p>While not directly radio related, this was too amazing not to share (so forgive me in advance! There is an Arduino involved, if that helps?!)<\/p>\n<p>The video above is of a robot which can solve Rubik&#8217;s Cube in about 1 second.<\/p>\n<p>I will not embarrass myself in telling how long it takes me to solve it . . . .<\/p>\n<p>It is, however, easy to see how radio hobbyists could find these Arduino boards quite intriguing!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Robert Gulley, AK3Q,\u00a0is the author of this post and <a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/author\/robert\/\" target=\"_blank\">a regular contributor<\/a> to the SWLing Post. Robert also blogs<\/em><em>\u00a0at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ak3q.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">All Things Radio<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While not directly radio related, this was too amazing not to share (so forgive me in advance! There is an Arduino involved, if that helps?!) The video above is of a robot which can solve Rubik&#8217;s Cube in about 1 second. I will not embarrass myself in telling how long it takes me to solve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,554,304],"tags":[4266],"class_list":["post-17139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-slightly-off-topic","category-videos","tag-arduino"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-4sr","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14962,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/tass-an-arduino-based-antenna-switch\/","url_meta":{"origin":17139,"position":0},"title":"TASS: An Arduino-based antenna switch","author":"Thomas","date":"October 1, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post reader,\u00a0Stan (WA1LOU), who writes: \"Enjoy your blog. 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