Confirmed! Standard Arduino Works With Android Open Accessory
Not long after the Open Accessory Kit was announced, romfont posted a great set of instructions on getting this work with a standard Arduino.
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Interesting Engineering Problem to Solve…
We do not have a dog where I live, but we do have Roombas (and a cat). While this example above is funny, it’s also a fun engineering challenge. How would you modify the Roomba to detect dog poop and stop instead of making modern art all over the place?
Building a Wireless Snail Mail Notifier
You may have already seen Matt Richardson’s wonderful Snail Mail Push project. Our Arduino projects guy, Riley Porter, has put together a snail mail hack of his own. His new workshop is in his backyard, far from his mailbox. Rather than having to walk to the box obsessively to see if mail has arrived, he […]
Quadrotor Formation Flying
The University of Pennsylvania’s GRASP Lab, famous for those crazy quadrotors that can fly through windows and hula hoops, has been working on getting groups of the robots to fly together in formation. Just like with a formation of fighter jets, there’s a leader robot in each squad along with several follower robots. The followers […]
In the Maker Shed: Pendulum Challenge
The Pendulum Challenge Kit from the Maker Shed includes everything you need to make the project featured in Make, Volume 26. This unique game features 15 LEDs arranged in an arc to simulate the path of a swinging pendulum that the player attempts to stop at its lowest point.
Scratch-Built Wall-E Mobile PC
Tinkerer “thechoozen” of Cologne, Germany built this superb Wall-E robot with a Mini ITX computer, an Arduino, and some servos. Nearly every step is documented from concept through paint! [Thanks, Petar]
Android Controlled 3D Printed Slalombot
Walking, rolling, floating, and swimming among the packed crowd at the Google I/O afterparty were numerous robots autonomous and otherwise under the influence. If you were to drop by the Maker Faire booth you would have gotten the chance to try your luck at navigating the slalom course with Brian Jepson’s 3D printed Slalombot using an Android smartphone’s accelerometer.