automation

These Little Robots Will Carry Away Your Car

These Little Robots Will Carry Away Your Car

Sci-fi movies imagine worlds where robots rebel against their creators and try to take over, but in reality there have been several studies and inventions that use robotics to help out humans in areas such as hospitals and schools. One European team of scientists has a created a team of robots that can get you […]

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Automatic chicken coop door opener

Automatic chicken coop door opener

Australian maker Mark Stead recently got some chickens and found out the hard way that they’re early risers. In order to accommodate his new avian friends sleeping habits (and reduce the impact to his) he decided to build an automatic door opener using an inexpensive battery operated alarm clock.

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Garduino: Gardening + Arduino

Garduino: Gardening + Arduino

I just published my Instructable on getting my Arduino to take care of my plants. Specifically, Garduino waters the plants when their soil resistance level drops too low and turns on supplemental lighting to make total light daily equal 16 hours regardless of outside conditions. It’s not pretty, but it works! Other than de-uglification, let […]

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Robot muffin man

Two Industrial Electrical Technician students built this automated muffin-making machine. The video captions are in French and there are no details about the construction, but it’s still kind of cool to watch. Machine à Muffins Automatisée [via]

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