{"id":652,"date":"2010-07-03T23:58:16","date_gmt":"2010-07-03T21:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/complexitymaze.com\/?p=652"},"modified":"2010-07-03T23:58:16","modified_gmt":"2010-07-03T21:58:16","slug":"the-most-useless-machine-ever-built-in-lego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/complexitymaze.com\/?p=652","title":{"rendered":"The most useless machine ever built in Lego"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My previous post about the<a href=\"http:\/\/complexitymaze.com\/2010\/06\/07\/learning-computer-science-with-lego\/\"> Lego Turing Machine <\/a>could (for some) be a contender for the title of &#8220;The most useless machine ever built in Lego&#8221;, but it is certainly a step up from this useless but entertaining machine: A machine that turns itself off.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"505\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Ixx92NkO78w&amp;hl=da_DK&amp;fs=1?color1=0x2b405b&amp;color2=0x6b8ab6\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Ixx92NkO78w&amp;hl=da_DK&amp;fs=1?color1=0x2b405b&amp;color2=0x6b8ab6\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"640\" height=\"505\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Useless but cute. How do people even think up these things?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My previous post about the Lego Turing Machine could (for some) be a contender for the title of &#8220;The most useless machine ever built in Lego&#8221;, but it is certainly a step up from this useless but entertaining machine: A machine that turns itself off. Useless but cute. How do people even think up these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[218,352],"class_list":["post-652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","tag-lego","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/complexitymaze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/complexitymaze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/complexitymaze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/complexitymaze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/complexitymaze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/complexitymaze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/complexitymaze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/complexitymaze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/complexitymaze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}