The next gathering of Make: DC is tomorrow night (Sept 16). We’ll be meeting at Greater Goods again (at 8pm) and we’ll be working on our Make: DC robot project. Our goal is to create the cheapest fully-programmable, Arduino-based robot development platform possible. You can see our progress so far, the six-dollar motor driver board, […]
I like the solution here for a horizontal accelerometer board on a vertical breadboard. At first he had the entire breadboard at horizontal, but this little hack is a more sensible solution. [This is from the balancing bot project I blogged about earlier]
Via HackedGadgets comes this promising-looking self-balancing robot, still a work in progress: Woohoo! I now have an Analog Devices ADXRS150 gyro on a Sparkfun breakout board (left). That, in combination with my Dimension Engineering DE-ACCM3D accelerometer, should get this thing balancing once I get the software squared away. After playing with it for a while […]
The latest issue of Servo magazine (September) is out and it has a lot of great stuff in it. I subscribe to both Robot and Servo and enjoy them both. Published by the venerable Nuts & Volts magazine, Servo skews a bit more towards the deeper geek,while Robot is geared more towards the casual hobbyist, […]
The video speaks volumes: I don’t know about you, but I think the intimidation factor definitely makes these a lot cooler. More in the gallery at the manufacturer’s site. None appear to be deploying weaponry… yet! [via The Robot Group]
Thanks to everybody who came out to Cafe Mundi Thursday for Dorkbot. Not a huge crowd, but we did have some great projects. In no particular order: Jason Delaney’s literally steampunk still, meant for distilling water, herbal essences, or (theoretically) alcohol. John P. Funk and his cosmically funky LED light sculpture. L. Scott Hudson’s .NET-programmed, […]
Crabfu has done a nice in-depth review of the Bioloid robot kit for Trossen’s site. Overview/Review of the Bioloid kit & animation system More: BIOLOID – DIY educational robot kits
