{"id":970,"date":"2013-08-28T02:02:14","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T02:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.furry.asinglelion.com\/?p=970"},"modified":"2013-08-28T02:02:14","modified_gmt":"2013-08-28T02:02:14","slug":"one-large-leap-for-plushies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/actonhe\/?p=970","title":{"rendered":"One Large Leap for Plushies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Giant leap for Pi-powered teddy bear<\/p>\n<p>A soft toy controlled by a Raspberry Pi computer has recreated Felix Baumgartner&#39;s record-breaking skydive.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Baumgartner made the furthest freefall in October 2012, from a balloon almost 39km (24 miles) high.<\/p>\n<p>A bear called Babbage has now leapt from a similar height after ascending beneath a hydrogen-filled balloon.<\/p>\n<p>The Raspberry Pi low-cost micro-computer inside Babbage transmitted his position and shot stills and video throughout the flight and descent&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/technology-23840596\" target=\"_blank\">Read the rest of the story here<\/a><br \/>\nVideo of the jump<br \/>\n<lj-embed id=\"487\"><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I41ooQQ_RIw?wmode=opaque\" width=\"420\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/lj-embed><\/p>\n<p>I been following Dave for a while because I think of doing my own High Altitude Balloon mission one day using the Raspberry Pi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Giant leap for Pi-powered teddy bear A soft toy controlled by a Raspberry Pi computer has recreated Felix Baumgartner&#39;s record-breaking skydive. Mr Baumgartner made the furthest freefall in October 2012, from a balloon almost 39km (24 miles) high. A bear called Babbage has now leapt from a similar height after ascending beneath a hydrogen-filled balloon. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,7],"tags":[178,159],"class_list":["post-970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-furry","category-media","category-news","tag-dave-akerman","tag-high-altitutue-balloon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/actonhe\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/actonhe\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/actonhe\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/actonhe\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/actonhe\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/actonhe\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":971,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/actonhe\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions\/971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/actonhe\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/actonhe\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/actonhe\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}