A few weekends ago I had the chance to check out the Northeast regionals for USFIRST in Boston. Above, Matt and Chris of Blackstone Valley Regional Vocational Technical High School, Team 61 tell about being involved. Here is a segment of one round of the competition: Norwell High School has a great robotics program mentored […]
Yet another vibrobot design, this one made out of a metal jar lid, motor, switch, and battery. Killer Jar Lid Robot is Coming For You!
While many of us wish we lived in the world promised to us by the sci-fi movies and shows we grew up with, so far, here in the 21st century, we have a robot that sort of vacuums an uncluttered living space and runty humanoid toybots that make fart jokes. Hey, it’s a start. But […]
I am so digging all of the bot sculptures that Tinkerbots shares in the MAKE Flickr pool. This one is VICTRON aka Slim. Love the model airplane engine on the back. Tinkerbots More: Tinkerbots’ rayguns
Here’s a sweet piece with a dad and his two daughters working with a drawbot they made from yogurt cups, DC motors, and art pens. They made some really nice wrapping paper. What a great thing for kids to be able to declare: “We made robots and they drew the art on the paper your […]
Here’s a vid of a hamster, in a hamster ball, controlling a iRobot Create. The hamster controls the robot by running in the ball in whatever direction he/she likes. The ball is supported on three rollers and an optical sensor measures which way and how fast the ball is spinning. Those values are fed into […]
I’m going back for more Attack of the Show! this Thursday! Tune in to see cool demos. I’m bringing some Twitchie robots (including Becky Stern’s stuffed scorpion, and my RoboFinger), the Tweet-a-Watt DIY power usage monitor, and everyone’s favorite light-sensitive analog synth kit, the Thingamakit. This episode will air on Thursday, February 26th at 7pm […]
