This weekend the MakeMobile was on the tarmac at the NASA Ames Research Center for Yuri’s Night. a massive global celebration of Yuri Gagarin’s first flight into space. 211 parties were held across the globe, and even the astronauts on the International Space Station had one!
Flickr use JesterVineo posted this video of the adorable Noah (his son) explaining their CoasterBot. See, robots are so easy, even a small child, a really precocious, adorable child, can figure them out. Go, Noah (and Jamie, who’s also working on the project)! Noah’s and Jamie’s robot components: Arduino Nano v3, L293D motor driver, AnyVolt […]
Brooklyn’s Brian Moore makes these cool information age / 20th century propaganda mash-up posters. Right now, he’s selling prints of Loose Tweets Sink Fleets and Wikipedia is Free, shown above, and he’s got several more designs in this Flickr set. [via Boing Boing]
This unique flashing Robot will not only help you learn good soldering techniques but will also be the center of attention wherever it is placed! The eyes, center LED and both hand LEDs flash brightly for weeks continuously or for months when you turn it off at the end of the day.
The Stingray robot provides a mid-size platform for a wide range of robotics projects and experiments. The Propeller Robot Control Board is the brains of the system providing a multiprocessor control system capable of performing multiple tasks at the same time. The Propeller chip provides eight 32- bit processors each with two counters, its own 2 KB local memory and 32 KB shared memory. This makes the Propeller a perfect choice for advanced robotics and the Stingray robot. This bot is big, and very powerful!
The fine folks over at Baltimore Node are gearing up to launch paper rockets at the Mid-Atlantic Mini Maker Faire.
This weekend the MakeMobile was on the tarmac at the NASA Ames Research Center for Yuri’s Night, a massive global celebration of Yuri Gagarin’s first flight into space. 211 parties were held across the globe, and even the astronauts on the International Space Station had one! The Bay Area event featured two days of educational […]
