The guys at Lumenlabs lost a little sleep over the critical comments made about their new micrRo CNC robot. (You mean there are actual people on the other side of the monitor glass, with feelings, that can actually be hurt? I had no idea.) They made a series of videos that show the bot cutting […]
What do you get if you cross a full-featured PC with a microcontroller? Trossen Robotics is hoping you get a Roboard RB-100, a new breed of robot brains that is like a tricked-out microcontroller or an extremely svelte PC, take your… ah… PIC. The Roboard RB-100 is a new breed of robotics controller: a fusion […]
When Keepon first debuted, bouncing along to Spoon’s “I Turn My Camera On”, the tech community went nuts! The simple, cute external appearance of this robot and it’s natural ability to bop along with music was an instant hit on Youtube. Unfortunately, beneath that elastic yellow skin was well over $20,000 worth of cutting edge […]
Our pals at Oomlout are looking for some open dev love for their robotic arm project. They write on their blog: Its time to take open source hardware to the people who can make it really awesome, you. Part of what makes open source software so powerful is the, varied skill sets of the people […]
Via the Parallax site comes this project to build an automated wooden-nickel printing machine that’s sort of an homage to coin-op penny arcade machines. Nickel-O-Matic Robot
MIT’s CSAIL (Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab) is using iRobot Create systems to experiment with robotic vegetable gardeners who can tend plants teleoperatively and can deliver just the right amount of what a plant needs based on sensors attached to the plant. When the fruit is ripe, the robots can even harvest it. [Is […]
This is a great example of a well documented group project. Their wiki has loads of information. There is sample code, parts lists, descriptions of the circuits, explanation of the components. Photo from Laboratory for Intelligent Mechanical Systems The robotic snake consists of a head segment and several body segments. The head segment houses the […]
