This is a nice tutorial on building your first PICAXE robot. These aren’t as easy to build as a BEAMbot, but they can do a whole lot more. The site contains links to suppliers and lots of photos of the build process. – Link
This robot is small, purpose-built, and can easily climb stairs. The website has a lot of photos and is a great source of technical information for stair climbing robots. If you are thinking of building something similar, this is a must-read. StairBOT is a small robot for indoor environments. On even floor it drives like […]
Ants are cool, but robots ants with mandibles are really cool. The site has several videos of the robot in action that you might want to check out. You are going to need a really big magnifying glass to burn this one! The Biologically-Inspired Legged Locomotion Ant (BILL-Ant) is an 18-DOF hexapod with six passive […]
Hackszine reader clickthegoogleads wrote to us about a set of Wiimote controlled curtains: The curtain control system is an existing system from Goelst and is called “G-Rail 6200″. Normally it is controlled by infrared or wallswitches. However, it can also be controlled with a CAN bus. I used this CAN bus to interface with an […]
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has a piece on a local bar owner who took fending off bums into his own hands: Rufus Terrill, who owns a bar in downtown Atlanta called O’Terrill’s, has grown weary of the drug dealers and vagrants he says frequent the neighborhood. Rather than put the police on speed dial or hire […]
Mike Biel wrote this handy web app for planning out LED projects using the EMS “Peggy” board. Great for preparing your next big marketing campaign! – Link Related: “Peggy,” – A Light emitting pegboard display – Link
Our very own Becky Stern was in the news yesterday, in the ASU State Press, talking about Archie, the sensor squid, a project of ASU’s Reflective Living Group in the Arts and Media Engineering program: The way the squid is set up makes it ideal for group collaboration, Stern added. In most office or research […]
