This year Arduino is launching their robotics platform, and I was fortunate enough to get my hands on one a little early.
Posted by Mark de Vinck | Friday May 17th, 2013 1:02 PM
Categories: Arduino, Electronics, General, Robotics | 6 Comments
One of Maker Faire's newest Blacksmith Sponsors is HAXLR8R, a hardware startup incubator based of both San Francisco and Shenzhen, China. Now in its second year, HAXLR8R takes promising startups...
Posted by Karen Tanenbaum | Wednesday May 15th, 2013 11:30 AM
Categories: Education, Electronics, Maker Pro, Makers, Open Source Hardware | No Comments
This is a story of two Michigan high school students putting their robotics expertise to great use. Wyatt Smrcka and Micah Stuhldreher of Pinckney Community High School, who took first...
Posted by Nick Normal | Wednesday May 8th, 2013 2:23 PM
Categories: Makers, Robotics | No Comments
Imagine the carnage that ensues when you pit two 200+ lb. robots against each other, often with weapons that spin at around 3500 rpm. The noise level and adrenaline both...
Posted by Eric Weinhoffer | Friday April 19th, 2013 2:26 PM
Categories: Robotics | No Comments
Charles Guan is an MIT alumnus, and has been making projects that have been festive and amazing over the past few years. Charles has been influential in the MIT Makerspace/club...
Posted by Chris Connors | Tuesday March 19th, 2013 7:00 AM
Categories: Workshop, General | 4 Comments
After selling out completely over the Holidays, a new shipment of Arcbotics' Hexy the Hexipod has arrived in the Maker Shed. Hexy comes in kit form with well written documentation...
Posted by Michael Castor | Wednesday February 27th, 2013 10:41 AM
Categories: Electronics, Arduino, Robotics | 1 Comment
By now most of the people affected by winter storm Nemo have unburied themselves from the snow. I'm sure many of them won't want to see snow again for a...
Posted by Michael Castor | Monday February 18th, 2013 8:46 PM
Categories: Robotics, General | 4 Comments
Got a robot on the web? Consider adding it to Livebots.cc, which aggregates UStream feeds from multiple robots that allow visitors to control them through the web. The “hand” robot...
Posted by John Baichtal | Thursday February 14th, 2013 11:30 AM
Categories: Robotics | 3 Comments
Affordable and hobbyist-friendly manufacturing tools that convert polygons into physical objects have been available for more than a decade. Although new technologies such as ABS extruders are different in many...
Posted by Michal Zalewski | Thursday February 14th, 2013 10:00 AM
Categories: Machining | 48 Comments
Seventeen-year-old Easton LaChappelle has created a 3D printed robotic prosthetic arm controlled by brainwaves that he hopes will bring an affordable, functional artificial limb to the masses. Oh, and Heineken...
Posted by Stett Holbrook | Friday February 8th, 2013 9:15 AM
Categories: Electronics, 3D Printing, Kids & Family, Robotics | 25 Comments
What has 6 legs, 19 servos, an Arduino for brains, and ultrasonic sensor eyes? It's Hexy the Hexapod robot from Arcbotics, and it's available in the Maker Shed just in...
Posted by Michael Castor | Wednesday December 5th, 2012 10:37 AM
Categories: General, Open Source Hardware, Robotics | No Comments
This modular robot made up of <1cm components, can fit together with its cousins to form more complicated structures, building on a concept where proteins could one day do the...
Posted by John Baichtal | Monday December 3rd, 2012 7:00 AM
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