Circuit supper
I love the funny and characterful scenes that Lenny & Meriel manage to capture with their Sparebots sculptures — like this dude, obviously ready for a bellyful of button cell. Sparebots
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Holiday Gift Guide: Robots!
In the last few years, the world of hobby robotics has exploded. Driven by the plummeting prices and ubiquity of microcontrollers, servomotors, and other electronic and mechanical components, the growth in personal fabrication technologies, and the success of such commercial toy, hobby, and domestic robots as Lego Mindstorms, the Robosapien line, Japanese mini humanoids, and […]
TGIMBOEJ: robot edition
The fine folks at Robots.net have started up a robot-friendly version of EMS Labs’ TGIMBOEJ (The Great Internet Migratory Box of Electronic Junk) project. Looks like there’s some juicy junk in there. I definitely have some amazing robot parts to add. Hell, I got bots I could toss in the box. Semi-cannibalized B.I.O.-Bugs, anyone? TGIMBOEJ […]
Maker Bundle #1: Parts for four bots
The Maker Shed has put together the first in a series of parts collections, called Maker Bundles. Maker Bundle #1 combines all of the electronic components to make four of the beginner-to-intermediate robot projects we’ve covered in MAKE magazine. For $20 off the cost of buying the parts separately, you get all of the components […]
The ACCRC’s It Ain’t Dead Yet blog
MAKE Editor at Large David Pescovitz writes on Boing Boing: The Alameda County Computer Resource Center (ACCRC) is a Berkeley, California-based non-profit group that recycles anything that you can plug into a power outlet. Massive tonnage of insanely strange circuitry goes in and out of that place on a daily basis. To share some of […]
Catching up with TGIMBOEJ
If you haven’t been checking up on The Great Internet Migratory Box of Electronic Junk (TGIMBOEJ) project in a while, there are a number of things that have been going on: There’s a TGIMBOEJ Wiki, with box tracking, links to blog reports and Flickr sets, details on starting boxes, lists to join to get a […]
Haggling for Asian electronics
Unplggd has two articles on shopping for cheap tech in Asian markets and how to haggle down the price on the stuff you want. Do your research. One of the first steps in haggling over a sale in Asia is to do proper research before making a purchase. It’s easy to find out what the […]
