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This Adorable Robotic Pixar Lamp Recognizes Your Face

This Adorable Robotic Pixar Lamp Recognizes Your Face

By Andrew Terranova

Andrew Terranova

Andrew Terranova is an electrical engineer, writer and author of How Things Are Made: From Automobiles to Zippers. Andrew is also an electronics and robotics enthusiast and has created and curated robotics exhibits for the Children's Museum of Somerset County, NJ and taught robotics classes for the Kaleidoscope Enrichment in Blairstown, NJ and for a public primary school. Andrew is always looking for ways to engage makers and educators.

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This Pixar robotic desk lamp was inspired by the cute animated short “Luxo Jr.” and shares some of the same curiosity and playfulness.

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Autonomous Android Phonebot Tracks, Chases Toy Like Housecat

Autonomous Android Phonebot Tracks, Chases Toy Like Housecat

By Sean Michael Ragan

Sean Michael Ragan

I am descended from 5,000 generations of tool-using primates. Also, I went to college and stuff. I am a long-time contributor to MAKE magazine and makezine.com. My work has also appeared in ReadyMade, c't – Magazin für Computertechnik, and The Wall Street Journal.

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Powerful, cheap, open platform from obsolete phone, OpenCV, Arduino, RC toy.

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Detecting Dirty Dishes with OpenCV

Detecting Dirty Dishes with OpenCV

By Matt Richardson

Matt Richardson

Matt Richardson is a San Francisco-based creative technologist and Contributing Editor at MAKE. He’s the co-author of Getting Started with Raspberry Pi and the author of Getting Started with BeagleBone.

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What happens in a shared space like a hackerspace, where you could have as many as fifty people passing through the communal kitchen in a given day? All those cups start to pile up quickly, I’m sure. Not one to let things get out of hand, London Hackspace member Tom created a solution to combat the problem. True to hackerspace form, he combined different open source technologies to alert the members in the space when a dish has been left in the sink for more than a few minutes.

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