{"id":33,"date":"2017-09-20T00:40:26","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T00:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelthompson.biz\/?p=33"},"modified":"2017-09-20T00:40:26","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T00:40:26","slug":"modeling-a-robot-to-do-my-chores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelthompson.biz\/index.php\/2017\/09\/20\/modeling-a-robot-to-do-my-chores\/","title":{"rendered":"Modeling a Robot to Do My Chores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since I have been dragged into this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/goldman-sachs-china-debt-in-charts-2016-5?r=UK&#038;IR=T\">Global Economy<\/a>, my checking account has taken a brutal a$$ whooppin&#8217;. I&#8217;m working harder and getting further behind. Simple math, if there is only 24 hours a day, my body needs 8 hours to rest, and when I have to work more hours, then time to do my chores at home is less.  Ya, like you&#8217;ve never heard of this before.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t afford to spend thousands of dollars on some new technology from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darpa.mil\/program\/darpa-robotics-challenge\">DARPA&#8217;s Used Robot Emporium.<\/a> The machine has to be built to last like my grandmothers MayTag Refrigerator, and if something breaks, it has to be modular enough that I can go to some place that 3D prints stuff and get one remade. And if the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.homedepot.com\/\">Home Depot<\/a> sells it, I&#8217;ll go there.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blender.org\">Blender 3D,<\/a> to design, and model it, because Blender 3D works. There&#8217;s a problem here, the User Interface just doesn&#8217;t cater to folks that don&#8217;t use Modeling Tools. You know, a Chat Bot for Blender 3D just might hammer down the learning curve Blender 3D has. I&#8217;ll keep you all posted as to how far I get on this tangent of thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I have been dragged into this Global Economy, my checking account has taken a brutal a$$ whooppin&#8217;. I&#8217;m working harder and getting further behind. Simple math, if there is only 24 hours a day, my body needs 8 hours to rest, and when I have to work more hours, then time to do my &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelthompson.biz\/index.php\/2017\/09\/20\/modeling-a-robot-to-do-my-chores\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Modeling a Robot to Do My Chores&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelthompson.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelthompson.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelthompson.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelthompson.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelthompson.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/michaelthompson.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41,"href":"https:\/\/michaelthompson.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions\/41"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelthompson.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelthompson.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelthompson.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}