{"id":1661,"date":"2014-11-29T19:29:27","date_gmt":"2014-11-30T03:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=1661"},"modified":"2014-11-29T19:30:12","modified_gmt":"2014-11-30T03:30:12","slug":"brilliant-kinetic-lego-particle-accelerator-human-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/29\/brilliant-kinetic-lego-particle-accelerator-human-head\/","title":{"rendered":"Brilliant kinetic Lego: Particle accelerator &#038; human head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Love it:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>This is a working particle accelerator built using LEGO bricks. I call it the LBC (Large Brick Collider). It can accelerate a LEGO soccer ball to just over 12.5 kilometers per hour.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SdmDb8ozcXc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m even more enamored of this one:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>[A] kinetic sculpture of a human head. As the top of the head opens it reveals a wonderful world of pure imagination built using LEGO bricks.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7MRa3XJHUOE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SdmDb8ozcXc\">YouTube 1<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SdmDb8ozcXc\">2<\/a>] [<a href=\"http:\/\/kottke.org\/14\/11\/a-working-lego-particle-accelerator\">Via<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Love it: This is a working particle accelerator built using LEGO bricks. I call it the LBC (Large Brick Collider). It can accelerate a LEGO soccer ball to just over 12.5 kilometers per hour. I\u2019m even more enamored of this one: [A] kinetic sculpture of a human head. As the top of the head opens [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1662,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661\/revisions\/1662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}