More and more books keep being released about our favorite little microcontroller, the Arduino. Apress offers a new one tomorrow entitled Arduino Robotics. Written by Josh Adams, John-David Warren, and Harald Molle, it’s is a monster 628 pages…
Get a grip with the Telerobotic Gripper Kit from the Maker Shed! This kit includes everything you need to make the Teleclaw featured in MAKE: Volume 27, even the batteries! Assemble the kit and attach it to your robot, rover, or anywhere else you could use an extra hand.
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Maker Channel 102 Veggies, Swashbot, Latte Printer and Urban Camo
Veggie Flute – Junji Koyama makes beautiful music with carrots, peppers and broccoli.
Swashbot – I-Wei Huang shows off his cool crab-like remote control robots.
Latte Art Printer – Oleksiy Pikalo programs his printer to etch intricate designs in a lattes froth.
[Trouble Maker] Urban Camouflage – Todd Lappin disguises a personal vehicle to look like a commercial vehicle to “legally” park in loading zones.
Cubelets look like they’re the perfect toy for kids that are old enough to be interested in robotics and electronics but not old enough to understand an H bridge: The cubelets standard kit comes with 20 magnetic blocks that can be snapped together to make an endless variety of robots with no programming and no […]
Man, and I thought the hacks on the Wii sensor bar came fast and furious. Amazing what people are doing with the Xbox Kinect and how viral all of these hacks quickly become. This one, an autonomous quadrotor, uses the Kinect Sensor for navigation and obstacle avoidance. It was done as part of the STARMAC […]
The OpenKinect windfall keeps rolling in. The folks over at Willow Garage look like they’ve been having a blast developing an improvised teleoperation system and generally riffing on all the wonderful possibilities inspired by the Microsoft Kinect controller and OpenKinect driver.
The Kinect hackapalooza continues. Here, PhD student Philipp Robbel, of MIT’s Personal Robotics Group, combined an Xbox Kinect with an iRobot Create to come up with KinectBot. It can can generate “detailed 3D maps of its surroundings and wirelessly send them to a host computer. KinectBot can also detect nearby humans and track their movements […]
