{"id":75729,"date":"2009-12-11T03:51:17","date_gmt":"2009-12-11T08:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ecofriend.org\/entry\/eco-gadgets-coolerbot-a-solar-powered-nature-photography-robot\/"},"modified":"2009-12-11T03:51:17","modified_gmt":"2009-12-11T08:51:17","slug":"eco-gadgets-coolerbot-%e2%80%93-a-solar-powered-nature-photography-robot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/75729","title":{"rendered":"Eco Gadgets: CoolerBot \u2013 A solar-powered nature photography robot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.instablogsimages.com\/images\/2009\/12\/11\/coolerbot_1_88w1o_69.jpg\" alt=\"coolerbot_1\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Eco Factor:<\/strong> Solar-powered robot built using a Coleman cooler. <\/p>\n<p>Built by nature loving DIYer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.norrislabs.com\/\">Steve Norris<\/a>, the CoolerBot is a solar-powered telepresence robot that carries an infrared video camera and a Nikon digital SLR camera for nature photography and is powered entirely by the energy harvested by its two solar panels. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"550\" height=\"335\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Aytuqv3GsQo&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x234900&#038;color2=0x4e9e00\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Aytuqv3GsQo&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x234900&#038;color2=0x4e9e00\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"550\" height=\"335\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Built using a 48-quart Coleman cooler, the CoolerBot uses a tail-dragger design with 14\u201d wheels in front and a 10\u201d rear caster wheel, which is mounted using a PVC pipe. The robot is propelled by two motors that are powered by separate 10 amp hour 12 volt SLA batteries, which are recharged by the two onboard solar panels.<\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.makezine.com\/archive\/2009\/12\/coolerbot_-_an_telepresence_nature.html\">MakeZine<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eco Factor: Solar-powered robot built using a Coleman cooler. Built by nature loving DIYer Steve Norris, the CoolerBot is a solar-powered telepresence robot that carries an infrared video camera and a Nikon digital SLR camera for nature photography and is powered entirely by the energy harvested by its two solar panels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":229,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/229"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}