{"id":292,"date":"2012-12-04T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/04\/on-school-day-mornings-i-walk-my-grade-school-age-son\/"},"modified":"2012-12-04T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-04T15:00:00","slug":"on-school-day-mornings-i-walk-my-grade-school-age-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/04\/on-school-day-mornings-i-walk-my-grade-school-age-son\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cOn school-day mornings, I walk my grade-school-age son&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<\/p>\n<h4>Sent to you via Google Reader<\/h4>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/new-aesthetic.tumblr.com\/post\/37131838444\">&#8220;On school-day mornings, I walk my grade-school-age son&#8230;<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/24.media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_mees6c9MHi1qjjis9o1_500.jpg?w=625\"><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On school-day mornings, I walk my grade-school-age son 400 meters down the hill to the bus stop. Last winter, I fantasized about sitting at my computer while a camera-equipped drone followed him overhead.\u2029 So this year, I set out to build one. For the basic airframe, I selected a quadcopter design for its maneuverability and ability to hover. Construction was straightforward: You can buy a quadcopter kit with all the pieces or, as I did, get parts separately and spend more time on system integration.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/geek-life\/hands-on\/the-diy-kidtracking-drone\" target=\"_blank\">The DIY Kid-tracking Drone &#8211; IEEE Spectrum<\/a>, via @justinpickard<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sent to you via Google Reader &#8220;On school-day mornings, I walk my grade-school-age son&#8230; &#8220;On school-day mornings, I walk my grade-school-age son 400 meters down the hill to the bus stop. Last winter, I fantasized about sitting at my computer while a camera-equipped drone followed him overhead.\u2029 So this year, I set out to build [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-4I","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}