Robot-Assisted iPhone Unboxing
uFactory’s uArm is equipped with a vacuum pump and solenoid valve, allowing it to lift even heavy things like a can of soda
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How-To: Rubber Toy Flash Drive
Turn your plain flash drives into fun custom data storage devices with this rubber toy flash drive tutorial!
You Got an Arduino. Now What?
Don’t let your Arduino just gather dust in a drawer after the 25th. Learn from this video and you’ll be well on your way to letting it also gather data on how many times that drawer gets opened as you try to remember where you stored the New Year’s decorations.
Make Your Own Mindstorms Cube Solver
David Gilday’s MindCub3r robot is made from a single Lego Mindstorms EV3 set and solves mixed-up Rubik’s Cubes.
Robot Year in Review: 2013
2013 was a good year for robotics. Let’s review some of my favorite stories, maker, products and projects.
Making Connections With Conductive Tape: A Primer
Conductive tape should be sold right alongside duct tape in craft stores. It is great stuff. How amazing that it acts like a wire and carries electricity between a battery and components like LEDs, buzzers, and motors. And you can take it anywhere. I mean anywhere. Planes, trains, automobiles, Maker Faires, libraries, other people’s living rooms. Can’t say that about a soldering iron.
Face Detection in 10 Minutes
Jason Kridner, a software architecture manager at TI and co-founder of BeagleBoard.org, shows how to program a BeagleBone to run Open-CV and face-detection algorithms.