{"id":115103,"date":"2015-01-22T18:39:42","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T01:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/mancos-teens-robotic-arm-is-whats-buzzing\/"},"modified":"2015-01-22T18:39:42","modified_gmt":"2015-01-23T01:39:42","slug":"mancos-teens-robotic-arm-is-whats-buzzing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/mancos-teens-robotic-arm-is-whats-buzzing\/","title":{"rendered":"Mancos teen\u2019s robotic arm is what\u2019s buzzing"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=44699d36-85d2-4e92-adaf-f585855b4a62&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=44699d36-85d2-4e92-adaf-f585855b4a62&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=800 800w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=44699d36-85d2-4e92-adaf-f585855b4a62&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=44699d36-85d2-4e92-adaf-f585855b4a62&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1800 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 2000px\" width=\"1939\" height=\"1044\" alt=\"Easton LaChappelle created this robotic arm for his science fair project, then got recognized by the website UPROXX and since has gone on to regional and national recognition.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Easton LaChappelle created this robotic arm for his science fair project, then got recognized by the website UPROXX and since has gone on to regional and national recognition.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Sam Green\/Cortez Journal file photo<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Last week, he was written about on a viral website, UPROXX, as part of a series on technology luminaries. The 19-year-old has gained not only regional attention for his developments, he also has been on national cable television, and, two years ago, shook hands with President Barack Obama.<\/p>\n<p>The UPROXX article and video talks about LaChappelle\u2019s work with 3-D printing. The headline is \u201cMeet Easton LaChappelle, The 19-Year-Old Luminary Building A Cheaper, Better Prosthetic Limb.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s not just creating one thing, he\u2019s giving everyone the ability to be their own engineer, to take what was once an involved, arcane process and make it one anyone can do,\u201d says the story, written by Dan Seitz.<\/p>\n<p>To see the story and video about LaChappelle, visit http:\/\/uproxx.com\/technology\/2015\/01\/easton-lachappelle-luminary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LaChappelle created this robotic arm for his science fair project, then got recognized by the website UPROXX and since has gone on to regional and national recognition.Sam Green\/Cortez Journal file photo Last week, he was written about on a viral website, UPROXX, as part of a series on technology luminaries. The 19-year-old has gained [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":115104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5843],"tags":[13,83,70,358,4502],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-115103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-living","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-mancos","tag-news-lead","tag-science-and-technology","tag-talk-about-town"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115103"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=115103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}