Sentry Robot will Stalk your Driveway
A team of students from Marin County Day School built a mobile robot with a sentry gun that responds to its environment.
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A team of students from Marin County Day School built a mobile robot with a sentry gun that responds to its environment.
Arduino Prototyping with your Android Phone
1Sheeld connects with and exposes the device’s sensors, actuators, and selected app APIs for easy access by the Arduino.
3D-Printed Smart Watch Wins Our Arduino Challenge, Heading to Maker Faire Rome
Arduino-compatible brain, Bluetooth LE connectivity, 3D-printed case, and open-source design.
Mirobot—a WiFi robotics kit at Maker Faire UK
The Mirobot, the brain child of Ben Pirt, brings long buried memories of the Logo Turtle flooding back. It's a Wi-Fi robot designed kit help children learn about technology and programming.
People Watching with Maker and “Social Observer” Natalia Buckley
Natalia Buckley is a hacker, designer, and creative technologist. She's originally from Poland and now live in Brighton on England's south coast, a city famed for its appetite for experimentation. "I'm just making speculative things, that don't necessarily fully exist in the real world, but help us learn something," she says. "I'm a social observer. The sole reason I make things is to learn something about other people. Because I find other people fascinating. My work in technology is basically about people. People constantly interact with technology and I can make technology to watch them do stuff!"
Mini Maker Faire and Data Sensing Lab at Strata NY This Week
O'Reilly's Strata + Hadoop World New York kicks off Monday, and while the conference is sold out, there are several events that are part of New York City Data Week that are open to the public, including a data-focused Mini Maker Faire and an experiment with Arduinos, sensors, and XBees (courtesy of Digi) and cloud storage (courtesy of Amazon Web Services). Come and check out cool projects, or join the fun and play with data and sensors.
The Arduino Hour at World Maker Faire New York
In this video from World Maker Faire New York 2012, Massimo Banzi updates the audience on all the latest hardware and software developments in the Arduino platform. He talks about the new 32-bit ARM-based Due board and David Mellis explains how the IDE has been upgraded under the hood to accomodate these new boards while keeping the user experience consistent. The Arduino team then turns it over to Alf-Egil Bogen (who is one of the inventors of AVR at Atmel) to talk about the chips at the core of Arduino.
Filed under: Arduino, Maker Faire
Hexy the Hexapod: Available at Maker Faire New York
Hexy is a robotic hexapod kit from Arcbotics. It’s a cute, cheap, easy and fun intro to advanced robots. It’s Arduino compatible, and 100% Open Hardware/Software.
Unless you were one of the over-500 Kickstarter backers who supported Hexy at $175 or higher, a Hexy kit is going to be hard to come by. But you’ve got another shot at it: we’ll have a number of Hexy kits for sale. $250 gets you:
- Everything needed to build the kit, including the screwdriver.
- Ultrasonic distance sensor eyes.
- Acrylic laser-cut pieces in your choice of several colors, with extra pieces.
- 20 Servos (18 for legs, 1 for eyes, 1 extra).
- Full Arduino-compatible Servotor32 robot controller capable of controlling up to 32 Servos.
- All the screws and nuts you need to assemble the kit, with extras.
- A serial-bluetooth adapter that plugs straight into the Servotor32 robot controller.
On top of that, the makers, Arcbotics, will be on hand as well. Look for Arcbotics and Hexy in the smaller of the two Maker Sheds (the one embedded in the Arduino pavilion).
Filed under: Arduino, Maker Faire, Robotics
