Northwestern University professor Malcolm MacIver’s GhostBot is a robotic fish that can swim forward, backward, and vertically using its incredible ribbon-like fin. Ghostbot’s locomotion is inspired by a knifefish in MacIver’s aquarium, which a colleague observed making an unexpected, vertical movement. Further observations revealed that while the fish only uses one traveling wave along the […]
Looking for a smartphone remote app for your robot project? Look no further than the new Cellbots app for Android. The gang over at Cellbots.com have been busy creating an accessible and full-featured controller app with multiple modes for maximum flexibility. The app works with iRobot Create, LEGO Mindstorms, VEX Pro, and, of course, custom Arduino cellbots.
With a beer fridge stocked and music blasting, engineers from across Google–and the world–spent the month of October soldering and hacking in their 20% time to connect hobbyist and educational robots with Android phones. Just two months later we’re psyched to announce three ways you can play with your iRobot Create(R), LEGO(R) MINDSTORMS(R) or VEX Pro(R) through the cloud.
The latest in robotic vacuum cleaning is the XV-11 from Neato Robotics – and it features a scanning LIDAR laser range-finding module that is ripe for repurposing in other robots. Chris over at Sparkfun lovingly tore in to one and wrote up the results so far – the module has a simple serial port interface […]
I absolutely love these meter crawlers, built by Keiko Takahashi in 2008.
Dizzy Robots are cute pocket-sized pals that dance around until they fall over. Thanks go to Steve Hoefer for the original article in MAKE Volume 24. To download The Dizzy Robot video click here and subscribe in iTunes. Check out the complete Dizzy Robot article in MAKE Volume 24 and you can see that in […]
Dizzy Robots are cute pocket-sized pals that dance around until they fall over. Thanks go to Steve Hoefer for the original article in MAKE Volume 24. View the PDF of this project. and then subscribe to MAKE magazine for other great projects you can do over the weekend. Get the Dizzy Robot Template here
