For decades, humans have imagined, even come to expect, life-size humanoid robots in their future. The sober truth is that such robots are extraordinarily complex mechanically, the intelligence to reliably bring them to life is still outside our grasp, and the cost of building such thinking machines is prohibitively expensive. But while we’ve been dreaming […]
Cheaper and more powerful than Raspberry Pi B+, “Chip” by Next Thing Co. could be the next revolution in single-board computing.
The Onion Omega, a promising open hardware development platform, blew through its Kickstarter goal this week, where its promise to make hardware development easy for software developers seemed to resonate with backers. “We are strong believers of open source and we strive to give back to the open source community,” wrote the Onion Omega team. “All hardware schematics, […]
The mDrawbot is a girder-based construction kit that lets you create a number of different drawbot configurations, from wallbot to eggbot.
If you missed BIOFABRICATE you missed out! Researchers, artists, designers and entrepreneurs are growing building materials, packaging, and lighting products from mushrooms. They’re painting with bacteria, dying cloth with microalgae and growing clothing from kombucha. Plus, get the scoop the programmable materials library being built with Autodesk’s Project Cyborg and learn to GIY!
Fab Labs are a global community of local workshops that enable invention by providing access to tools and for digital fabrication education and enrichment, which has grown to over 250 labs worldwide in ten years.
The challenge of finding a BeagleBone Black board is likely a concern of the past.
