{"id":170,"date":"2008-08-28T05:17:45","date_gmt":"2008-08-28T12:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.art-sastra.com\/blog\/?p=170"},"modified":"2008-12-24T23:33:25","modified_gmt":"2008-12-25T06:33:25","slug":"pulling-an-office-prank-with-ckbot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jimmysastra.com\/blog\/pulling-an-office-prank-with-ckbot\/","title":{"rendered":"Pulling an office prank with CKbot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While working at Willow Garage, Matt and I and some others pulled a prank on our good friend Sachin using Robopong (a machine that shoots ping pong balls) and our CKbot modules. In a nutshell, we created a hatch in the ceiling we could open and close remotely. Through this hatch we could fire ping pong balls at Sachin. Of course it&#8217;s all captured on tape for your entertainment. The video still needs some editing, mainly I still have to add some music before I upload it to our lab&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/ckBot\">YouTube account<\/a> but I thought I&#8217;d let out a sneak preview. Enjoy.<\/p>\n<div class=\"alignright\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"900\" height=\"675\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/blip.tv\/play\/AcqkSgA\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"900\" height=\"675\" src=\"http:\/\/blip.tv\/play\/AcqkSgA\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While working at Willow Garage, Matt and I and some others pulled a prank on our good friend Sachin using Robopong (a machine that shoots ping pong balls) and our CKbot modules. In a nutshell, we created a hatch in the ceiling we could open and close remotely. Through this hatch we could fire ping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimmysastra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimmysastra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimmysastra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimmysastra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimmysastra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimmysastra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimmysastra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions\/177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimmysastra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimmysastra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimmysastra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}