{"id":1468,"date":"2025-06-11T16:41:43","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T21:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.vrac.iastate.edu\/reu2025\/?p=1468"},"modified":"2025-06-12T09:05:25","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T14:05:25","slug":"starting-blender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.vrac.iastate.edu\/reu2025\/starting-blender\/","title":{"rendered":"Starting Blender"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today we started working with blender which I was excited about but was a lot harder than I was expecting. There are so many amazing things you can make with it and so I really hope it starts to get easier because I can\u2019t wait to see what I can build! We also finished up our solidworks assembly, learning how to piece together our contraption and animate its movement. A tiring day, but we\u2019re learning so many cool things!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/projects.vrac.iastate.edu\/reu2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_3782-1024x768.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-1466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/projects.vrac.iastate.edu\/reu2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_3782-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/projects.vrac.iastate.edu\/reu2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_3782-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/projects.vrac.iastate.edu\/reu2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_3782-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/projects.vrac.iastate.edu\/reu2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_3782-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/projects.vrac.iastate.edu\/reu2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_3782.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/projects.vrac.iastate.edu\/reu2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_3787-768x1024.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-1467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/projects.vrac.iastate.edu\/reu2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_3787-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/projects.vrac.iastate.edu\/reu2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_3787-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/projects.vrac.iastate.edu\/reu2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_3787-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/projects.vrac.iastate.edu\/reu2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_3787.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we started working with blender which I was excited about but was a lot harder than I was expecting. There are so many amazing things you can make with it and so I really hope it starts to get <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/projects.vrac.iastate.edu\/reu2025\/starting-blender\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.vrac.iastate.edu\/reu2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.vrac.iastate.edu\/reu2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.vrac.iastate.edu\/reu2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.vrac.iastate.edu\/reu2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.vrac.iastate.edu\/reu2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/projects.vrac.iastate.edu\/reu2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1469,"href":"https:\/\/projects.vrac.iastate.edu\/reu2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468\/revisions\/1469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.vrac.iastate.edu\/reu2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.vrac.iastate.edu\/reu2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.vrac.iastate.edu\/reu2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}