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There are a lot of hobby and educational robots that have a similar form factor: a low, wide body with either wheels or tracks for locomotion. When [Alexander Kirilov] wanted …read more Continue reading Robot Goes to Summer Camp
It’s easier than ever to build your own robot, but humans have been building automatons since before anyone had even thought of electronics. One beautiful example is the Silver Swan, …read more Continue reading Restoring the Silver Swan Automaton
What do you get when you mix rigid and elastic polymers with a laser-scanning 3D printing technique? If you are researchers at ETH Zurich, you get robot hands with bones, …read more Continue reading Robot Hand Has Good Bones
Robotic safety standards are designed for commercial bots, but amateur robot builders should also consider ideas like the keepout zone where a mobile robot isn’t permitted to go or how …read more Continue reading Robots: How The Pros Keep Them Safe
We’ve seen plenty of first-person view (FPV) robots built using the Raspberry Pi Zero, but this one from [Shane] has an interesting twist: rather than directly driving the wheels from …read more Continue reading Pi Zero FPV Robot Uses Tiny Motor & Gears
The 2023 Halloween Contest might be over, but we saw some great entries and clever modifications bringing projects into the Halloween spirit. One of them is Creepsy by [Hazal Mestci], …read more Continue reading 2023 Halloween Hackfest: Meet Creepsy, The Robotic People-Seeking Ghost
Every hacker appreciates how off-the-shelf parts can be combined into something greater, and [bryan.lowder] demonstrates this beautifully with his organ-playing skeleton, a wonderful entry to our 2023 Halloween Contest! Skelly …read more Continue reading 2023 Halloween Hackfest: Organ-playing Skeleton Livens Up Halloween
Move over, 3D printed houses. There’s a new game in town, and it is able to use standard concrete blocks to build the walls of a house in just one …read more Continue reading Brick-Laying Machine Builds Without Mortar
We’re on a sort of vacation in Tanzania at the moment and staying in a modest hotel away from the tourist and government district. It’s a district of small shops …read more Continue reading The Dar es Salaam Hacker Scene and Gamut Detection
If you grew up playing with LOGO on an old 8-bit computer, you’re probably familiar with the concept of a drawbot. It’s a simple robot that drags a pen around …read more Continue reading Tim’s Draw Bot Gets Around With a Pen