Tacocopter has been trending for awhile, now, but I wanted to hold off on covering it until the hype wore off a bit and a more sober analysis appeared. And...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Wednesday March 28th, 2012 9:00 AM
Categories: Fun & Games, Robotics | 5 Comments
My post last Friday (Making Money with Drone-Based Businesses) was long on enthusiasm and short on facts. Thanks, as always, to our fantastic commentariat for helping me get up to...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Thursday March 1st, 2012 9:00 AM
Categories: Robotics | 11 Comments
The emerging story of entrepreneurs using drones to provide marketable services is fascinating to me. Small businesses have been making money by making drones themselves for quite awhile, now, but...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Friday February 24th, 2012 9:26 AM
Categories: Maker Pro, Photography & Video, Robotics | 24 Comments
The clever designers at Chicago’s Tanagram adapted code developed to recognize those little black-and-white augmented-reality markers (“fiduciary markers”) for target acquisition on a DARPA-funded robot that can autonomously deliver humanitarian...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Thursday February 16th, 2012 1:00 PM
Categories: Art & Design, Computers & Mobile, Robotics | No Comments
UPDATE (1/26/2012 2:56 pm Pacific: Kickstarter funding for the eye3 project was canceled by the project creator. UPDATE: Since posting this, I’ve received a number of emails about this Kickstarter...
Posted by Mark Frauenfelder | Friday January 20th, 2012 4:30 PM
Categories: Photography & Video, Robotics, Tools | 26 Comments
One of the more exciting things to come out of CES so far is the upgraded version of the Parrot AR.Drone. This quadcopter made a splash at last year's show,...
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Wednesday January 11th, 2012 2:01 PM
Categories: Art & Design, Fun & Games, Home, Robotics | 1 Comment
This drone, reportedly a prototype for the Japan Self Defense Force, has a single rotor and is said to be capable of 40 mph flight. And as the video shows,...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Monday June 13th, 2011 1:06 PM
Categories: Fun & Games, General, Robotics | 20 Comments
The New York Times has produced an entertaining recap vid of last month's Autonomous Vehicle Competition, hosted by our pals at SparkFun. It's narrated by WIRED's Chris Anderson, who is...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Monday May 16th, 2011 1:28 PM
Categories: Electronics, Robotics | 10 Comments
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