{"id":386,"date":"2004-11-23T07:27:54","date_gmt":"2004-11-23T13:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/?p=386"},"modified":"2004-11-23T07:27:54","modified_gmt":"2004-11-23T13:27:54","slug":"davinci-the-roboticist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/2004\/11\/23\/davinci-the-roboticist\/","title":{"rendered":"DaVinci the Roboticist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ultimate genius.<\/p>\n<p>I have long admired the genius that was DaVinci.  He did a little bit of everything and he did it all so very, very well.  An artist and an inventor and now, it seems, a bit of an entertainer, too.<br \/>\nThis <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wired\/archive\/12.11\/davinci.html?pg=1&#038;topic=davinci&#038;topic_set=\">story on Wired<\/a> examines another aspect of Leonardo&#8217;s genius: robots.  More accurately, automata.  Think of Disney&#8217;s animatronics in the Middle Ages.  These drawings, which have been long interpreted as some kind of spring-powered &#8220;car&#8221;, were drawn and presumably built in roughly 1478.  Their modern recreation, painstakingly recontructed from numerous drawings and sketchs, have produced a a cart that runs along a predetermined path.  A path that can be changed based on gears and other settings within the device itself.  In other words, a Middle Ages robot.  <\/p>\n<p>Now, there&#8217;s got to be some great ideas for fantasy worlds and stories in that!  And, it&#8217;s a great article.  Check it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ultimate genius. I have long admired the genius that was DaVinci. He did a little bit of everything and he did it all so very, very well. An artist and an inventor and now, it seems, a bit of an entertainer, too. This story on Wired examines another aspect of Leonardo&#8217;s genius: robots. More [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,18,14,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantastic-and-surreal","category-invented-worlds","category-news-and-current-events","category-science-and-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}