Technology

Open Source Generative Music Maker

The folks over at Teague labs have built a fun Arduino based generative music maker with a unique minimalist keyed user interface called Muze. Instead of directly manipulating instruments, you use a color coded knob to tune or influence multiple aspects of the score Muse plays at once. If you’d like to play along, you […]

Winners of MAKE Volume 27 Robot Contest

Winners of MAKE Volume 27 Robot Contest

Here at headquarters, we just wrapped up the newest issue of MAKE, Volume 27, the Robot issue. Look for it on newsstands on July 26th. While we were working on the issue, we were curious to see what kinds of bots our community members were making and thought it would be fun to host a little contest. The premise of the contest was simple: we were looking for bots with lots of character.

The Latest in Hobby Robotics 11

The Latest in Hobby Robotics 11

In this weeks episode of The Latest in Hobby Robotics, Andrew and
Frits are looking at some cool designs for home made robots.

Here are links related to the show:

Chris The Carpenters Steampunk robot:
http://letsmakerobots.com/node/27139

Wikipedia on steampunk:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk

Robot 2 by Axbri:
http://letsmakerobots.com/node/22431

Ant’s robots:
http://letsmakerobots.com/user/564/pages/robot

PetToyBot by mrkiss:
http://letsmakerobots.com/node/2225

Learn how to make a robot:
http://letsmakerobots.com/start

The Latest in Hobby Robotics 11

In this weeks episode of The Latest in Hobby Robotics, Andrew and Frits are looking at some cool designs for home made robots. Here are links related to the show: Chris The Carpenters Steampunk robot Wikipedia on steampunk Robot 2 by Axbri Ant’s robots PetToyBot by mrkiss Learn how to make a robot Subscribe to […]

Robot Butler Serves Drinks Autonomously

Robot Butler Serves Drinks Autonomously

This robot was designed, manufactured and programmed for a design competition (as part of the curriculum) held amongst first year Mechanical Engineering students at Delft university of Technology. The goal was to create a robot that could perform a delivery as quickly as possible, while also keeping as much as possible of the delivery on […]

In the Maker Shed: DrinkShield

In the Maker Shed: DrinkShield

The DrinkShield, available in the Maker Shed, is an open source breathalyzer kit that is used with an Arduino. The sensor reacts to alcohol content in your breath and can be programmed to light the attached LEDs to act as a standalone breathalyzer or hooked up to a computer for a more interactive experience.