Bay Area Maker Faire

Build Modular Animal Robots with the Animech Project

Build Modular Animal Robots with the Animech Project

By bill livolsi

bill livolsi

Bill is the owner of http://onecarworkshop.com, where he makes videos about optimizing a small workshop for maximum effectiveness. He lives in Las Vegas, NV with his wife, their dog, and two guinea pigs.

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For someone without a background or education in engineering and electronics, robotics can be a daunting field. That’s why Jeffrey Moore of The Animech Project is developing robotics kits that help teach those skills in a fun and accessible way. The Animech Project, on display at this year’s Maker Faire Bay Area, is creating robotics kits […]

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Qualcomm's Snapdragon DragonBoard 410c development board.

Qualcomm Showcases DragonBoard 410c’s Expanded Developer Options at Maker Faire

By Andrew Terranova

Andrew Terranova

Andrew Terranova is an electrical engineer, writer and author of How Things Are Made: From Automobiles to Zippers. Andrew is also an electronics and robotics enthusiast and has created and curated robotics exhibits for the Children's Museum of Somerset County, NJ and taught robotics classes for the Kaleidoscope Enrichment in Blairstown, NJ and for a public primary school. Andrew is always looking for ways to engage makers and educators.

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DragonBoard 410c Returns to Maker Faire Last year at Maker Faire Qualcomm® upped its game in an effort to attract Makers and other developers to their DragonBoard™ 410c development board. This year the chip manufacturing giant returns to Maker Faire Bay Area with demos of custom apps, games, and robots all based on the DragonBoard […]

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Agile Hexapod Sees with Market’s Smallest, Lowest Cost LIDAR

Agile Hexapod Sees with Market’s Smallest, Lowest Cost LIDAR

By Jordan Bunker

Jordan Bunker

Technical Editor at Maker Media. Maker. Hacker. Artist. Sometimes Scientist. Pretengineer. Builder of things. Maker of stuff.

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At the Bay Area Maker Faire, we saw one of the coolest autonomous robots ever: Rhoeby, a navigation-capable hexapod. While the robot is built from a customized version of a standard ROBOTIS Bioloid “spider” kit, the real magic behind Rhoeby is the LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) system. LIDAR systems work in a similar fashion to radar. The system sends […]

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