A sous-vide immersion cooker is a tool used, generally in high end restaurants, to cook food immersed in water. I didn’t know what this technique was, but based on the pictures of the finished steak in Matthew Arbesfeld’s project write-up, I’m now a huge fan. One reason why these cookers are not generally found in […]
B1-0 and N1-C are the world’s first robotic bartenders on a cruise ship. Watch them “makr shakr” your drink at sea!
Combine a webcam with real-time computer vision software OpenCV to automate messages to your makerspace whenever dishes pile up.
A simple three-switch effects looper for the BeagleBone Black built with open source software.
Track all the bits and bytes that pass over a network connection. Convert that signal to blinking lights on a tricolor LED strip.
Activity trackers (e.g. the FitBit) are becoming more popular for tracking fitness goals. As fun as this is, you could always just build your own with, you guessed it, an Arduino! You’ll also need a battery, a Bluetooth module, an accelerometer, as well as some custom software on your smartphone or other device. According to […]
Note: This is an excerpt of Brian David Johnson’s new book, 21st Century Robot, an audacious experiment in storytelling that weaves sci-fi stories into a real-life nonfiction narrative featuring several worldwide adventures, a serious dose of 3D printing, plenty of open source technology, the efforts of a first grade class, and a socially precocious robot […]
