Until we enter the age of companion droids, robots for the mass market will continue to be categorized as either appliances or toys. Which makes Toy Fair New York a great place to check out the new consumer robots coming out every year. Happily, many of these robots come in the form of kits or […]
Orbotix’sย popular Sphero rolling robot has a new friend. Ollie was launched last fallย and we’re happy to now have it in the Shed. You may be wonderingย what the differences are between Sphero and Ollie. Let’s take a closer look. Theย first-of-itโs-kind Sphero trumped many of the Bluetooth-enabled robots out there, taking gaming and action to a new […]
EZ-Robot has developed an impressive set of products. They lent me one of their robots to evaluate. Come check it out.
Note: This excerpt was adapted from the introduction to Wolf Donat’s new book, Make a Raspberry Pi-Controlled Robot, a step-by-step tutorial on indeed, building your own robot rover, freshย from Make: Books. I like to call this robot a rover, as I tried to pattern it after NASAโs designs. Figure 1-1 shows the general outline of […]
The gift-giving season officially kicks off this week โ and weโre here to help with our Ultimate Makers’ Gift Guide for 2014. Our five experts pored over hundreds of items to hand select the bright and shining stars in five of our favorite categories. They’ve double- and triple-checked their list, and provided it for us […]
The Cannybots are 3d printed line following robots that are Arduino compatible, and controlled via Bluetooth LE.
Disney’s new animated crime fighters are armed with ingenuity and high-tech tools
