{"id":3737,"date":"2011-05-25T17:28:34","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T21:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/?p=3737"},"modified":"2011-05-25T17:28:34","modified_gmt":"2011-05-25T21:28:34","slug":"x-wing-fighter-soapbox-derby-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/x-wing-fighter-soapbox-derby-car\/","title":{"rendered":"X-Wing Fighter Soapbox Derby Car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"xwing soapbox derby\" src=\"http:\/\/nerdapproved.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/xwing-soapbox-derby.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"443\" \/><br \/>\nThis X-Wing Soap Box Derby Car looks amazing.<\/p>\n<p>It looks great, and it also features a  styrofoam R2-D2 that spins thanks to an old children\u2019s toy  that was  re-routed through an NES controller so that the A and B buttons can  control the movement. The droid also includes the familiar R2-D2 babble  thanks to an iPod, some speakers and a 50-second audio loop.<\/p>\n<p>However, the most amazing aspect of this build is the fact that the  entire X-Wing was constructed for under $75 thanks to the use of  (mostly) recycled materials. Check out an additional image after the  break.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"x-wing soapbox derby 2\" src=\"http:\/\/nerdapproved.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/x-wing-soapbox-derby-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"443\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hit up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instructables.com\/id\/X-Wing-Fighter-Soapbox-Derby-Car\/\">Instructables<\/a> for more details on how it was built.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This X-Wing Soap Box Derby Car looks amazing. It looks great, and it also features a styrofoam R2-D2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mods"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3738,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3737\/revisions\/3738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}