While Outerspace may not have an extremely useful function, being an art installation, we really enjoyed reading through the build information. Basically, Outerspace is supposed to appear to be curious, exploring it’s surroundings and reacting to your contact.
Via Hack a Day | Posted on 2009.11.18 at 22:38
[Harm's] tumbling robot from a few years back is an excellent study in simple motion. Foregoing wheels or legs, he uses four flippers to roll the robot around the room.
Via Hack a Day | Posted on 2009.11.18 at 03:32
Here’s something that the R/C airplane crowd might think of as old news. These directions show us how to rework floppy drive and CD Rom motors to be high power airplane motors.
Via Hack a Day | Posted on 2009.11.18 at 02:27
We stumbled onto one of [Nik Melton]’s projects, an Omni-car. It is omnidirectional, meaning it can go any direction at any time without having to turn.
Via Hack a Day | Posted on 2009.11.18 at 01:53
Mix a cup of mechanical engineering with a dash of drum set and you end up with Steve, the robotic drummer. We know that it uses an MSA-T Midi Decoder but that’s about the extent of what has been shared.
Via Hack a Day | Posted on 2009.11.14 at 13:46
We’re filing this one under “best interface implementation”. This robot is controlled by finger gestures on the surface of an iPod Touch.
Via Hack a Day | Posted on 2009.11.13 at 07:37
The Samara Micro-Air-Vehicle is a product of over three years of work at the University of Maryland’s Aerospace Engineering Autonomous Vehicle Laboratory.
Via Hack a Day | Posted on 2009.11.12 at 07:35
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[Jack], [Cory], and [Maciej] are playing Pac-Man with Roombas on a lab floor. The Roombas are outfitted with ALIX3d2 single board computers running Gentoo and a software suite developed for UAVs at the University of Colorado at Boulder’s Research and Engineering Center for Unmanned Vehicles.
Via Hack a Day | Posted on 2009.11.11 at 05:06
AWE is an interesting project, where your office wall is a helpful robot. That’s the goal anyway. The wall is articulated and can reconfigure its shape to fit your needs.
Via Hack a Day | Posted on 2009.11.11 at 04:54
[Eustice Scrubb] has posted some videos and pictures of a robotic “eye stalk” that he’s building. It looks like the final version is using 3 servos in an arrangement like tendons through a slinky jr.
Via Hack a Day | Posted on 2009.10.31 at 23:12