Cooler Robot Delivers Cold Beverages On-Demand
A robotic cooler that uses an Arduino for brains and serves drinks from an RC wheelchair platform.
Technology
Making on Vacation with littleBits
My idea of an ideal vacation includes time with my family – exploring and learning about some new part of the world, with a little time to play with new Maker toys. Last year, I took our Fireball HD pinball electronics to the beach along with a bunch of new connectors. We built all new custom cables, […]
How To Make A Dancing Baby Groot
You can make a Baby Groot too, and it even dances
A $100 Origami Robot That Folds Itself Up and Walks Away
I have a thing for low-tech robots, especially when they’re made from everyday stuff. The body of this new little robot bug from MIT and Harvard, described last week in the latest issue of Science, is made from a five-layer sandwich of copper traces, paper, and shape-memory polymer — the stuff you know as Shrinky […]
Sketching in Hardware
Since 2006 I’ve organized* Sketching in Hardware, an annual summit on physical computing tools. Forty of the smartest designers, developers, researchers, artists and educators I know get together for three days to talk about tools that make it easier to develop hardware products, responsive environments and digital art. Hardware is still hard, but a lot […]
RGB LED Glasses
If you’re not satisfied with glasses that only have a monochrome LED display, this model by Garret Mace of macetech instead features an array of RGB LEDs. It’s possible that you caught a glimpse of them as worn by Garret at the Bay Area Maker Faire. Last year he premiered a pair of the more […]
The Squink—a personal electronics factory?
The gap between idea and prototype, prototype and product, is shrinking— and the Squink which is now raising money on Kickstarter could well be part of reason. It’s a portable electronics factory, in a box.
