15-Foot-Tall Paint-Cannon Equipped MegaBots Come to Life
All three MegaBots will be at Maker Faire Bay Area, with the largest firing its giant paintballs at cars.
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Next Thing Co. Releases “World’s First” $9 Computer
Cheaper and more powerful than Raspberry Pi B+, “Chip” by Next Thing Co. could be the next revolution in single-board computing.
Watch These Kids Go Nuts Making Rube Goldberg Machines
STEAMLabs invited kids and families to build crazy Rube Goldberg machines at their brand-new Makerspace in downtown Toronto, and the resulting video is 62 seconds of fun. Makes me think OK Go should just hire these kids to do their next video. STEAMLabs is a non-profit, all-ages Makerspace dedicated to empowering kids and adults to […]
Rockstar Robots: Meet Boston Dynamics’ BigDog
Rockstar Robots make up the cream of the crop in the world of robotics. These are the bots that will turn heads with just their name being uttered. Even those who don’t stay on top of who’s making what should recognize a famous robot or two when they see it. For the month of May, […]
Building Drones to Deliver Medicine and Food to War-Torn Syria
Fixed-wing UAVs aren’t just for bombs anymore — meet the nonprofit building drones to fly supplies to Syria
Turning EEG Data and a Raspberry Pi into Brainwave Games
It’ll primarily describe the wearer’s attention, but that translates nicely into a game, in which two players compete to focus their attention and achieve a goal
Former Pixar Engineer Starts Her Own Electronics Company, Modulo
MakerCon was developed for Makers like Erin Tomson, someone who has an idea to make something better and wants to learn the process of taking that idea and developing into a product that creates value for the Maker community. As Erin tells us below, she came to MakerCon last year and it got on her […]