Month: May 2007

Maker Faire: ultraOrb

Maker Faire: ultraOrb

A stunning rotating display, The ultraOrb creates a sphere of 3D color animation to provide a new perspective on visual information. In a multi-generational collaboration with his father and grandfather, James Sears constructed The Orb as his thesis project for New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program. The system consists of 320 tri-color LEDs mounted on […]

Solar powered Picaxe Microbot (Vibrobot)

Solar powered Picaxe Microbot (Vibrobot)

Chipwhich sent in this solar powered microbot based on a Picaxe (PIC with bootloader) – This is a small solar powered progammable robot. It’s design was inspired by BEAM robots, but whereas those devices are usually entirely hardware based, I favor systems which rely on software. Allowing programmability, however basic, introduces a whole new level […]