{"id":172,"date":"2010-10-15T21:20:31","date_gmt":"2010-10-16T04:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/distantpulse.com\/serenity\/?p=172"},"modified":"2010-10-15T21:38:45","modified_gmt":"2010-10-16T04:38:45","slug":"old-storage-box-full-of-rc-parts-for-the-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/distantpulse.com\/serenity\/?p=172","title":{"rendered":"Old storage box full of RC parts for the WIN!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don't need to buy a radio now, because I came across an old box in storage that had a bunch of my old RC stuff in it... One of the items in it was a 4 channel radio\/receiver in good, working condition.  Take THAT $120+ I would have had to spend!<\/p>\n<p>...Which is good news because I think I need to spend about $50 just for a free rotation potentiometer to make my wind-vane work.  I came across this one <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usdigital.com\/products\/ma3\/\" target=\"_popup\">here<\/a> which was actually recommended in another autonomous sailboat forum I came across.<\/p>\n<p>Also, I came across another group of autonomous sail-boaters and a competition called <a href=\"http:\/\/sailbot.ca\/WRSC___IRSC_2010\/About.html\" target=\"_popup\">WRSC<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>And then there's this <a href=\"http:\/\/auoosb.ning.com\/\" target=\"_popup\">guy\/group<\/a>... They're planning to circumnavigate the planet with theirs!!  And I thought it was ambitious to go to Catalina round-trip...  Though they mention the plan is to use a 16 foot hull for that endeavor, and their current hull is 8 feet.  Maybe my 5 footer will be the little robot boat that could.  \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t need to buy a radio now, because I came across an old box in storage that had a bunch of my old RC stuff in it&#8230; One of the items in it was a 4 channel radio\/receiver in good, working condition. Take THAT $120+ I would have had to spend! &#8230;Which is good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/distantpulse.com\/serenity\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/distantpulse.com\/serenity\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/distantpulse.com\/serenity\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/distantpulse.com\/serenity\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/distantpulse.com\/serenity\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/distantpulse.com\/serenity\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182,"href":"https:\/\/distantpulse.com\/serenity\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions\/182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/distantpulse.com\/serenity\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/distantpulse.com\/serenity\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/distantpulse.com\/serenity\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}