In the Maker Shed: Tiny Wanderer Robot Kit
Are you interested in robotics but need a good starter kit to get you on the road to success? The Tiny Wanderer Complete Kit (available in the Maker Shed) might just be the ticket!
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Kinect-Equipped Humanoid Robot
Malte Ahlers of Germany os finishing up his PhD in neurobiology, and tinkering with robots on the side. He also makes robots! I would like to introduce my latest robotics project. It is a human sized humanoid robot torso called “A1”. There is still a lot of work to do but I think the direction […]
Two-Way USB Communication Between iPhone and Raspberry Pi (and BeagleBone)
Alasdair Allan (author of iOS Sensor Apps with Arduino) and David House spent the weekend getting their iPhones to talk to their BeagleBones and Raspberry Pis over PeerTalk. Alasdair writes: Following up on the work I was doing last night connecting the iPhone to the BeagleBone using PeerTalk. I’ve now reached the blinking LED stage, […]
Bunnie’s Workshop
Ian of DangPro interviews Andrew “Bunnie” Huang and checks out his workshop. [via Adafuit]
555 Timer Weekend Projects
The 555 timer IC has been used in many of our Weekend Projects, from beginner-friendly breadboard experiments to advanced weekend-long builds.
New in the Maker Shed: Solder:Time II Watch
If you liked the original Solder: Time Watch Kit, you’ll love the feature packed Solder: Time II! It features an impressive LED matrix display and is reprogrammable using the Arduino IDE.
EEG-Actuated Watermelon Exploder
Chris Cprek of Louisville’s LVL1 hackerspace demonstrates a EEG-controlled machine that blows up watermelons. Brad and I created Mind over Melon. Ever since I was a boy, I’ve dreamed of exploding things with my mind. At LVL1, we now have the technology to make this dream come true. Using a hacked Star Wars Force Trainer, […]