{"id":16,"date":"2009-10-02T20:00:24","date_gmt":"2009-10-03T01:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/wordpress\/?p=4"},"modified":"2009-10-02T20:00:24","modified_gmt":"2009-10-03T01:00:24","slug":"in-the-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/in-the-beginning\/","title":{"rendered":"In the beginning&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been wanting to work with the hardware for an inverted pendulum for a while.\u00a0 A year or two ago I developed a coding challenge involving an inverted pendulum that I want to run using NI software.\u00a0 The ideal situation would be to use the NI Control Design and Simulation module to simulate a physical system.\u00a0 The competition would be run using the simulation, then the winning entry could be transferred to the real hardware.\u00a0 I was working with some folks at NI on the idea, but we never really got anywhere.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I started thinking about the challenge again, and decided I needed to have a system that I could use here to run the challenge properly.\u00a0 At first I thought about borrowing a system from NI, but that didn\u2019t look feasible.\u00a0 I started looking at prices and figured I could build my own for a few hundred dollars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been wanting to work with the hardware for an inverted pendulum for a while.\u00a0 A year or two ago I developed a coding challenge involving an inverted pendulum that I want to run using NI software.\u00a0 The ideal situation would be to use the NI Control Design and Simulation module to simulate a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}