Prototyping Systems for Robotics
A bot-builder’s guide to bits and pieces.
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Making Trouble — Soft Robots
Otherlab is building robots you can ride, arm wrestle, or hug.
Made On Earth — Playing with Firewall
Michael Allison and Aaron Sherwood are both musicians and performance artists who partnered up to create Firewall, an interactive performance object that’s made of a piece of spandex stretched across a large frame.
Cloning the DARwIn-OP
3D-print a $12,000 humanoid robot — for half that price.
DIY Electronic Birthday Candle
Electrical engineer and tinkerer Michael Ciuffo created this clever DIY Electronic Birthday Candle, which actually goes out when you blow on it, for his girlfriend’s birthday!
BrickPi Controls Mindstorms Bots With a RasPi
Dexter Industries builds Lego Mindstorms add-on sensors and other compatible products, and their latest project — not yet completed — is the BrickPi, which allows the Pi to control up to 3 Mindstorms motors and four sensors (but not the ultrasonic). The board’s firmware is written in Arduino 1.0. If you’re interested in the source, […]
Meet Robots That Dance, Make Pancakes, Host Shows, Knit, and Breathe Fire
The 4th annual Maker Faire UK, the largest gathering of makers in Europe, is coming right up on April 27 and 28 at the Centre for Life in Newcastle. Among the diverse and interesting makers in the lineup are robots of all persuasions. Pictured above is Paka and his fire horse (photo by Michael Eyes). […]