Embedded Linux Meets FPGA Capes
Andy Gikling built an open-source robot called BBot, a “remote-controlled robot that talks, sees, and serves drinks at the pool!”
Andy Gikling built an open-source robot called BBot, a “remote-controlled robot that talks, sees, and serves drinks at the pool!”
Game of Drones have flown their experimental quadcopter through fire, crashed through glass windows, dropped it from great heights, and even blasted it out of the sky. Now this nearly indestructible airframe is available via a Kickstarter campaign.
Jason Kridner, co-founder of BeagleBone.org, took to the Electronics Stage last September at Maker Faire New York and demonstrated cool tricks you can do with the BeagleBone Black.
If you’ve done enough making, you’ll know that being a do-it-yourselfer can create quite a ruckus at times, intentional or not! We in the Maker Shed love our group of rowdy new products, which range from melodious to totally discordant.
This week at CES 2014 we saw a lot of the typical fare: televisions, tablets, cameras, and phones. But we also saw robots, 3D printers and scanners, drones, and even some hardware development boards. Here’s some of our favorites.
Got something you need to stash? Or maybe you’d just like to use your space more efficiently? Why not use the empty space inside all those bulky VHS tapes with this ingenious VHS Tape Secret Compartment tutorial from Instructables user M3G?
I got an idea of building a smartphone for the blind that is completely Braille-based. With absolutely no hint of how to make it, I started working on it.