Compression spring

Dice Popper

Dice Popper

This is my version of a classic way to โ€œrollโ€ the die for a board game.

Better Nerf Gun

Better Nerf Gun

Like most geek-filled offices, at my workplace we have several Nerf guns and similar toy weapons floating about. Not impressed with the performance of my colleague Lesterโ€™s Nerf Maverick, a mainstay of Nerfโ€™s suction-cup-dart-firing โ€œN-Strikeโ€ series, I decided to build a better Nerf gun myself. Hereโ€™s the result: a simple weapon, single shot only, but […]

Spazzi: A Solenoid Powered Dancebot

Spazzi: A Solenoid Powered Dancebot

At BeatBots, we believe that dancing is one of the most worthwhile occupations a robot can have. We like making cute characters move in interesting ways, and as youโ€™ll see, this doesnโ€™t require expensive components or complicated programming. For Spazzi here, we decided to forego the rotational motors (servos and steppers) that many robots use. […]