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Maker Channel 102 Veggies, Swashbot, Latte Printer and Urban Camo on MAKE: television

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Maker Channel 102 Veggies, Swashbot, Latte Printer and Urban Camo
Veggie Flute – Junji Koyama makes beautiful music with carrots, peppers and broccoli.
Swashbot – I-Wei Huang shows off his cool crab-like remote control robots.
Latte Art Printer – Oleksiy Pikalo programs his printer to etch intricate designs in a lattes froth.
[Trouble Maker] Urban Camouflage – Todd Lappin disguises a personal vehicle to look like a commercial vehicle to “legally” park in loading zones.

Continue Reading March 8th, 2011April 15th, 2015 Makemagazineuser

Cubelets: Modular Robotic Blocks

Cubelets look like they’re the perfect toy for kids that are old enough to be interested in robotics and electronics but not old enough to understand an H bridge: The cubelets standard kit comes with 20 magnetic blocks that can be snapped together to make an endless variety of robots with no programming and no […]

Continue Reading February 20th, 2011 Matt Richardson12

Kinect-powered autonomous quadrotor

Man, and I thought the hacks on the Wii sensor bar came fast and furious. Amazing what people are doing with the Xbox Kinect and how viral all of these hacks quickly become. This one, an autonomous quadrotor, uses the Kinect Sensor for navigation and obstacle avoidance. It was done as part of the STARMAC […]

Continue Reading December 6th, 2010 Gareth Branwyn2

Willow Garage PR2 controlled with Kinect

The OpenKinect windfall keeps rolling in. The folks over at Willow Garage look like they’ve been having a blast developing an improvised teleoperation system and generally riffing on all the wonderful possibilities inspired by the Microsoft Kinect controller and OpenKinect driver.

Continue Reading November 24th, 2010 Adam Flaherty4

Hacked iRobot Create uses Xbox Kinect

The Kinect hackapalooza continues. Here, PhD student Philipp Robbel, of MIT’s Personal Robotics Group, combined an Xbox Kinect with an iRobot Create to come up with KinectBot. It can can generate “detailed 3D maps of its surroundings and wirelessly send them to a host computer. KinectBot can also detect nearby humans and track their movements […]

Continue Reading November 17th, 2010 Gareth Branwyn2

MAKE discount for ComBots Cup V!

Once again, our pals at ComBots are offering discounts on this year’s ComBots Cup event. David Calkins writes: ComBots invites all Bay Area MAKE readers and Maker Faire attendees to discounted tickets to “ComBots Cup V,” the fifth annual heavyweight robot combat championship. This event highlights the best combat robot teams in America and their […]

Continue Reading October 13th, 2010 Gareth Branwyn2

Berkeley Bionics introduces eLEGS exoskeleton

Amanda Boxtel’s excitement is contagious. That’s because she’s been taking the recently unveiled Berkeley Bionics eLEGS exoskeleton for a walk in the park. Not the easiest thing to do if you’ve been in a wheelchair for the last 18 years.

Continue Reading October 8th, 2010 Adam Flaherty10