{"id":23517,"date":"2018-01-31T08:00:43","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T16:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.digilentinc.com\/?p=23517"},"modified":"2021-06-09T12:44:53","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T19:44:53","slug":"turbo-orgins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/turbo-orgins\/","title":{"rendered":"Turbo: Orgins"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you have spent time in the Digilent store,<\/a> or receive our newsletter you might be familiar with a cheerful little robot known as Turbo!<\/p>\n

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What you may not be as familiar with is the little robot’s origins.This iconic Digilent mascot has been the face for countless sales and promotions, however today we will take a little peek behind where exactly that face came from.<\/p>\n

In the words of Turbo’s creator, Norm:<\/p>\n

We wanted a sort of mascot for the MakerSpace. I started by adapting a cute drawing Larissa had done of a robot with a tv-style head, sitting on the ground. I ended up doing something that felt (I thought) more like 60’s ad-art, very 2D. Something from Rocky & Bullwinkle. Plus, I wanted something that might look good in motion, so I gave him 2 little wheels for feet. That’s what I was thinking, anyway. Really I just wanted to make something that Larissa would think was cute!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So there you have it, the brief biography of our marvelous mascot! Check out some additional versions of Turbo below:<\/p>\n

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Learn the history behind Digilent’s favorite robot!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":23745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1553],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[4485],"class_list":["post-23517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-about-us","category-around-digilent"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/index.jpg","authors":[{"term_id":4485,"user_id":36,"is_guest":0,"slug":"mirandamay7","display_name":"Miranda Hansen","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bcab037c32924b9f9b3ca4898e179f2764cb7d9a82aa2bd475170c8aaa884e1c?s=96&d=mm&r=g","1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":"","9":"","10":""}],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23517"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=23517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}