{"id":7548,"date":"2011-01-05T03:00:10","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T08:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=7548"},"modified":"2011-01-05T03:00:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-05T08:00:10","slug":"tweedle-beetle-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/7548","title":{"rendered":"Tweedle Beetle Battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week Rhett <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2010\/12\/how-fast-is-a-hex-bug\/\">introduced me to Hex Bugs<\/a>, and I had to go out and buy a starter kit.  Rhett&#8217;s thing is taking video and doing physics analysis.  Mine is slow-motion:<\/p>\n<p><object class=\"embed\" width=\"425\" height=\"264\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" \ndata=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/uA16haoLgqQ?fs=1\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/uA16haoLgqQ?fs=1\" \/><em>You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video<\/em><\/object><\/p>\n<p>The bugs vibrate, as you might be able to tell, and the angled legs give them a forward motion bias from the shaking.  They even go up an incline of ten or 20 degrees.  I tested three bugs in the hallway, where they were free to roam; one had a tracking bias clockwise, another anti-clockwise, and the third ran pretty straight.  The legs appear to be silicone, so it&#8217;s not easy to change how they are bent (elastic deformation) to see if you can change that.<\/p>\n<p>There are other form factors as well.  More on that as my wallet is drained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week Rhett introduced me to Hex Bugs, and I had to go out and buy a starter kit. Rhett&#8217;s thing is taking video and doing physics analysis. Mine is slow-motion: You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/7548\">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":[53,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7548","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=7548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}