Collaborate Disseminate
You’ve got to hand it to [Carl Bugeja] — he comes up with some of the most interesting electromechanical designs we’ve seen. His latest project is right up there, too: …read more Continue reading Single Flex PCB Folds into a Four-Wheel Rover, Complete with Motors
Doctor Who eventually made light of the fact that the Daleks were critically impaired when it came to staircases. This rover from [WildWillyRobots] doesn’t share that issue, thanks to a …read more Continue reading Stair Climbing Rover Gets Up With Rocker Bogies
It may look like a lightsaber sitting on the surface of Mars, but this titanium tube is actually a sample canister dropped off by the Perseverance rover. This could eventually be the first pristine sample of Martian soil and rock returned to Earth in a… Continue reading Perseverance drops first sample tube for potential return to Earth
There are places that you can go in person, but for everything else, there’s FPV. Whether you’re flying race quads, diving the depths in a yellow submarine, or simply roving …read more Continue reading Start Your Engines: The FPV Contest Begins Now!
NASA’s Mars Rovers are robots that have inspired many budding engineers around the world. [Nikodem Bartnik] had a particular fondness for them himself, and set out to build a miniature …read more Continue reading Mini Mars Rover Runs On Pi Pico W
We techie types are quite often much more comfortable in front of a keyboard knocking out code, than out in the yard splitting logs for winter, and even the little …read more Continue reading Cutting The Grass With Frickin’ Lasers
Popular consumer products often become the basis of many hacker projects, and hoverboards are a good example of this. [Tanguy] is using the drivetrain from a pair of hoverboards to …read more Continue reading Hackaday Prize 2022: A Hefty Hoverboard Rover
Our first encounter with extraterrestrial life isn’t likely to be a spaceship landing on the White House lawn, but tiny fossils in the rocks of another planet. To aid in that search, scientists at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa have developed a port… Continue reading BioFinder detects organic molecules in fossils, could help find aliens
Interfacing technology and electronics with the real world is often fairly tricky. Complexity and edge cases work their way in to every corner of a project like this; just ask …read more Continue reading Autonomous Mower Hits Snag
Since NASA’s Mariner spacecraft made the first up-close observations of Mars in 1964, humanity has lobbed a long line of orbiters, landers, and rovers towards the Red Planet. Of course, …read more Continue reading NASA Taps Lockheed to Bring Back a Piece of Mars