{"id":9216,"date":"2014-04-04T13:16:01","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T13:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/178.62.14.192\/?p=9216"},"modified":"2014-04-04T13:16:01","modified_gmt":"2014-04-04T13:16:01","slug":"mini-nerf-gun-created-with-the-raspberrypi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9216","title":{"rendered":"Mini Nerf gun created with the #RaspberryPi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jordanbalagot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/raspberry-jolt-final-1024x682.jpg?resize=560%2C373\" width=\"560\" height=\"373\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jordan Balagot has created a robot that shoots mini Nerf darts. 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Take a look at the video below or view&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9216\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[50,45,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-making","category-robotics","category-silliness"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mini Nerf gun created with the #RaspberryPi - Raspberry Pi Pod<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9216\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mini Nerf gun created with the #RaspberryPi - Raspberry Pi Pod\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Jordan Balagot has created a robot that shoots mini Nerf darts. 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