Where’s Wall-E?
Last year, illustrator Richard Sargent created this amazing poster with just about every robot in popular culture (and hid Wall-E in the midst of it).
Technology
Weekend Projects – Mini Rover Redux
Complete instructions for this episode of Weekend Projects can be found at http://makeprojects.com/Project/Mini-Rover-Redux/2479/1
Learn the basics of modding a remote controlled (RC) vehicle for the purpose of making your own terrestrial rover. Mount one wireless camera onto your vehicle’s chassis, and see how far you can drive it and see what it sees. Then, add a second camera for ultra-wide-angle vision, front and rear viewing, or sterescopic 3D video of the world!
With this Hack, Take Your Raspberry Pi To Go
Nathan Morgan, the founder and CEO of Parts-People.com, created this fantastic portable Raspberry Pi enclosure complete with LCD screen, battery pack, extra storage, keyboard, trackpad, WiFi, and Bluetooth. Not only that, but the case itself is 3D printed. His post about the project details the process of making it, the parts list, block diagram, and […]
Lego Mindstorms Telepresence Robot
Ricky’s telepresence robot consists of a Mindstorms robot hauling around a Skype-enabled tablet. The robot is controlled by a color sensor which detects color-coded commands on the tablet’s screen and navigates accordingly. [via The NXT Step]
BouncyIrises, a Physical/Digital Interaction Game
First year ITP student Xuedi (“Zoodie”) Chen presented this awesome physical/virtual game installation as part of ITP’s Winter Show.
TFTweet – Displaying Tweets on an Arduino Shield with the Raspberry Pi
Drew Fustini recently got his hands on an AlaMode and used it display tweets from his Raspberry Pi to an 2.8″ TFT LCD Touchscreen Shield. The AlaMode and shield are connected to the Raspberry Pi which runs the Arduino IDE and a bit of Python code to make it all happen.
A Very Robotic Christmas
Autonomous Systems Lab in Zurich put together this fun video featuring their ballbot Rezero and their reindeerbot StarlETH. [via The NXT Step]