Turn Your iMac Box into an Incredible Drawbot
Learn how to take an Apple iMac computer box and recycle it into a computer-controlled robot that can draw artwork.
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Watch These Dancing Delta Bots Sway and Glow
We have been eagerly awaiting the arrival of the Robot Army. That’s not really a sentence you get to say every day is it? Well, we get to! This robot army isn’t as scary as it sounds. Instead of showing up armed as one might expect from the name, this robot army of delta bots […]
InMoov Provides Everything from Prosthetics to Cocktails Around the World
A global community is contributing expertise to the InMoov Project
Developing Musical Instruments for People with Physical Disabilities
East London-based engineering and designing studio Bare Conductive recently developed a new digital musical instrument accessible to everyone, including those with physical disabilities. The new technology allows an artist to express himself freely through music, regardless of physical limitations. It is one of the first instruments that is accessible for all people, enabling everyone to […]
Arduino Wars: Genuino vs the Phantom Arduino and the Clones
The biggest news coming out of Maker Faire Shenzhen, outside the size and intensity of the event itself, was the announcement made by Massimo Banzi that Arduino boards using the name Genuino will be made in China by Seeed Studio. There have been plenty of Arduino clones made in China that closely copied every detail of Arduino, […]
Hypnotic Circular Knitting Machine Weaves Yarn Like Magic
Knitting is a popular needlecraft, but it can get tiring knitting larger pieces. Varvara Guljajeva and Mar Canet came up with a clever way to automate the process with this open source, open design, 3D printed circular knitting machine called the Circular Knitic. This idea didn’t just come out of thin air, it took a few […]
From the Magazine: InMoov, the Life-Size Humanoid Robot You Can Print at Home
How InMoov, the open-source, 3D-printed humanoid robot was born.