{"id":82748,"date":"2018-09-17T06:02:33","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T13:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/father-of-hobby-robotics-gordon-mccomb-has-died"},"modified":"2018-09-17T06:02:33","modified_gmt":"2018-09-17T13:02:33","slug":"father-of-hobby-robotics-gordon-mccomb-has-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/father-of-hobby-robotics-gordon-mccomb-has-died","title":{"rendered":"Father of hobby robotics, Gordon McComb, has died"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/father-of-hobby-robotics-gordon-mccomb-has-died.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I woke up this morning to the sad news that maker-pal and pioneering hobby roboticist, Gordon McComb, had passed away. I <a href=\"https:\/\/makezine.com\/2018\/09\/14\/gordon-mccomb-father-of-hobby-robotics-has-passed-away\/\">wrote a brief eulogy<\/a> on <em>Make:<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It is with a heavy heart that we here at Make: announce the passing of hobby robotics pioneer, Gordon McComb. He died on Monday, Sept 10th, apparently of a heart attack. Gordon was a great friend to <em>Make:<\/em> and to makers and robotics hobbyists from around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Gordon\u2019s <em>Robot Builder\u2019s Bonanza<\/em> book, first published in 1987, arguably marks the beginning of hobby robotics as a significant maker category. It was the book that I bought in the late 80s that got me into robot building, and by extension, all forms of hardware hacking\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/boingboing.net\/2018\/09\/17\/father-of-hobby-robotics-gord.html\">https:\/\/boingboing.net\/2018\/09\/17\/father-of-hobby-robotics-gord.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I woke up this morning to the sad news that maker-pal and pioneering hobby roboticist, Gordon McComb, had passed away. I wrote a brief eulogy on Make: It is with a heavy heart that we here at Make: announce the passing of hobby robotics pioneer, Gordon McComb. He died on Monday, Sept 10th, apparently of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}