In honor of John Lennon’s birthday, here’s a piece of cool, inexplicable conceptual techno-art that might be right up John and Yoko’s alley. It’s an untitled piece by Christopher Kaczmarek and was shown at last month’s ArtBots show in Dublin. I found it on the Solarbotics site. They gave it a shout out ’cause the […]
This crafter/maker duo collaborated to create these glowing-eyed knit robots featured on the cover of CRAFT Volume 01. Ana knit the bots, João made the simple LED circuit. When you press the chest of the bot, the eyes light up. Ana Crafts Related: CRAFT subscribers can read the Digital Edition of CRAFT Volume 01 here.
Our pal Robert Oschler sent us this message: The first videos by actual owners of the long-awaited Spykee robot have just surfaced on the Web. In the video, the open source Spykee WiFi robot made by Meccano is put through its paces by biker blogger Sven. He shows the robot in unassembled form, then cuts […]
Art meets machine September 19-21 – What: ArtBots: The Robot Talent Show Where: Science Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin Friday, 19, noon-11pm: show open Friday, 19, 7pm & 8pm: Robotic musical performances by Ray Lee as part of Fringe Fest/Dublin Culture Night Saturday, 20, noon-8pm: show open Sunday, 21, noon-8pm: show open Sunday, 21, 6pm: ArtBots […]
While doing work on the forthcoming The Best of Instructables collection, I ran across this project for building little LED blinky bugs using an AVR Attiny44v. It looks like a great electronics and crafts project for kids and it’s a well-done Instructable. I was certain we’d covered it here on MAKE, but I couldn’t scare […]
Built with the LEGO NTX platform (plus PDA support processor), the Sundial Robot uses sensor data to calculate time of day the new/old-fashioned way – In operation, the robot rotates 360 degrees to calibrate the Compass Sensor. It then rotates in 5 degree increments, the light sensor is swept from vertical until the Touch Sensor […]
We’ve written about Lockwasher’s rayguns before – he has some great junk robots, too!
