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!
Certainly a unique take on robotic kits, the Twitchie awaits your creative ‘touch’ – Twitchie is an open source multi-purpose robot kit. It has the capacity to frighten and scare, but also the power to love and care! It’s a regular pathos-o-matic! Grown men scream! Maternal instincts long dormant, suddenly activated! It’s a robot unlike […]
Scientists from the university of Reading have created a simple wheeled robot with distance sensors that is controlled wirelessly by a network of cells from a rat’s brain. The sensor data is fed to the neurons which reside in a nutrient/antibiotic solution – the cells output is then transmitted to the ‘body’ as control commands. […]
