Balloon Imaging “Satellite”
Snap aerial photos from 300' up by suspending a hacked camera from 3 helium balloons.
Posted by Jim Newell
Categories: Robotics | 3 Comments
UAV
Fijibot, an Autonomous Solar-Charging Robot
Toy vehicles from plastic bottles are pretty cool. Add an Arduino, solar panel, batteries, ultrasonic range finding, a few servos, some beefier tires, and you'll have something like Fijibot, an...
Posted by Adam Flaherty | Tuesday August 14th, 2012 2:00 AM
Categories: Arduino, Fun & Games, Robotics | 3 Comments
Chris Anderson Packs the House!
DIY drones are the rage! Chris flew a quadcopter off the stage, and entertained droves of questions from how much weight the copters can carry, to FAA regulations, and announced...
Posted by Sabrina Merlo | Sunday May 20th, 2012 1:38 PM
Categories: Arduino, Fun & Games, Open Source Hardware, Robotics | 6 Comments
Mini Quadrotors Play the James Bond Theme
A group of UPenn Engineering students have taken several quadrotors and turned them into robotic musicians. We've seen the great swarming abilities of these machines recently, but now using various...
Posted by Michael Colombo | Thursday March 1st, 2012 10:00 AM
Categories: Electronics, Music, Robotics | 4 Comments
Blimpduino and UAV at Maker Faire
Chris Anderson demonstrates the systems of the BlimpDuino. The Blimpduino kit is a very low cost, open source, autonomous blimp kit. It consists of an Arduino-based blimp controller board with...
Posted by Chris Connors | Saturday June 6th, 2009 8:37 AM
Categories: Arduino, Fun & Games, Robotics | No Comments
