{"id":10739,"date":"2012-01-10T03:00:27","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T08:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=10739"},"modified":"2012-01-10T03:00:27","modified_gmt":"2012-01-10T08:00:27","slug":"gifts-from-the-beyond-neutral-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/10739","title":{"rendered":"Gifts from the Beyond Neutral Zone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New toy!<\/p>\n<p><object class=\"embed\" width=\"425\" height=\"264\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" \ndata=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/w_YnE01mNqk?fs=1\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/w_YnE01mNqk?fs=1\" \/><em>You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video<\/em><\/object><\/p>\n<p>This is a hexbug larva, and yes, it looks a bit like a baby Ceti eel from The Wrath of Khan.  It&#8217;s autonomous, so the redirection is happening on its own.  What&#8217;s going on?<\/p>\n<p><object class=\"embed\" width=\"425\" height=\"264\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" \ndata=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/5e2vO6EuyHo?fs=1\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/5e2vO6EuyHo?fs=1\" \/><em>You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video<\/em><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Little flashy infrared LED, with a sensor below it. (I used my IR webcam to film these shots).  It&#8217;s intermittent, which I assume is to screen out any DC  signal from background light and detect pulses in the same pattern.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the underside, where you can see the locomotion details.  Not sure of the sex, though, or what happens when it grows up.<br \/>\n<object class=\"embed\" width=\"425\" height=\"264\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" \ndata=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ZIdyRdAWPzY?fs=1\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ZIdyRdAWPzY?fs=1\" \/><em>You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video<\/em><\/object> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New toy! You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video This is a hexbug larva, and yes, it looks a bit like a baby Ceti eel from The Wrath of Khan. It&#8217;s autonomous, so the redirection &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/10739\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,53,58,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-tech","category-toys","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}