Sick of throwing out boxes full of useless, exotically-shaped, styrofoam packing materials? You could always take a leaf from artist Michael Salter’s book and construct a massive meditating robot sculpture from left-over styrofoam.
Drake Anthony, perhaps better know as “the DIY Laser Guy” on YouTube, and his most terrifying creation yet.
Built by Mohanarajah Gajamohan at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, the Cubli is a 15 cm cube that can walk, jump and balance on one corner.
Kids do love them some robots, even the littlest kids. So I’m shopping for robots this year and the Shed’s got ’em — check out these four super easy kits suitable for kids younger than 10.
Build a robot that controls your Christmas lights and similar lights around the world
Pick up gifts for the robotically inclined with the Arduino & Robots Gift Guide put together by the Maker Shed team. For beginners, there are no-soldering required projects like the Tin Can Robot Kit and the Makey Makey Standard Kit, which turns nearly anything you can think of into a computer key. For the more advanced, give a Getting Started with Arduino Kit v3.0 to those who wish to build electronics projects that sense and react to stimuli.
These books are cheap, fast reads, covering everything from how to build an Arduino-compatible micro-controller on a breadboard, to how to build and launch a satellite, and will make excellent stocking stuffers this Christmas.
