Sony recently renamed its “old” Sony Spritzer, an Arduino compatible with a Sony hexa-core Arm Cortex-M4F micro-controller, a built-in GNSS receiver, and an audio codec. They made some design modifications and called the “new” board Spresense. Sony is ready to launch the main board for ~$50, and the extension board for an extra $32 on…
If you’d like to check out your pool or a lake without getting wet, this underwater ROV looks like a great solution. “My goal was to have it not cost a fortune, have it easy to drive, and to have a camera to show what it sees underwater. I didn’t like the idea of having…
The Pixy announced in 2013 as a Kickstarter campaign, was a computer vision package meant for makers that can learn and detect objects via the press of a button. The new Pixy2 is smaller, faster, and smarter than the original, and has the same capabilities as the original Pixy, plus a few new tricks. These latest features…
The Arduino Engineering Kit enables college students and educators to incorporate core engineering concepts into their Arduino projects, thanks to industry-standard tools for algorithm development, system modeling, simulation and robotics with the support of MATLAB and Simulink programming. These software packages are the base of industry-standard tools for algorithm development, system modeling, and simulation, all…
Adafruit has announced it will soon be launching its new Adafruit Crickit development board designed for Circuit Playground Express. The new board has been designed as an add-on development board for the popular Circuit Playground Express to aid with the construction of robots supporting CircuitPython, MakeCode (coming soon), or Arduino. “The Crickit is powered by…
After the success of the past edition, the largest European event on innovation organised by the Rome Chamber of Commerce through its Special Agency Innova Camera returns to the Fiera di Roma from 12 to 14 October 2018 for the Sixth edition. Maker Faire Rome is the event in which the digital revolution that is changing…
SPH Engineering – a 5-year-old startup out of Latvia – is offering an off-the-shelf product to create drone light shows. The company’s drone swarm management software, called UgCS DDC (Unmanned Ground Control Software Drone Dance Controller) enables almost any drone and entertainment industry professionals to set up a drone swarm show in weeks. The UgCS DDC provides…
At Geeky Gadgets Deals there’s an interesting deal for Raspberry Pi enthusiasts: the 37 Sensors Starter Kit for Raspberry Pi. You can choose between two different kits: $79.99 – 37 Sensors Starter Kit $129.99 – 37 Sensors Starter Kit + Pi 3B included The Internet of Things fun and opportunity with Raspberry Pi is virtually limitless — but…
While robots have been making our lives easier and our assembly lines more efficient for over half a century now, we haven’t quite cracked a Jetsons-like general purpose robot yet. Sure, Boston Dynamics and MIT have some humanoid robots that are fun to kick and knock over, but they’re far from building a world-ending Terminator…
Can a robot replace a man? Fei Liu says absolutely! After a series of brief, ill-defined, and painful relationships in New York and Germany she started to develop her private robotic boyfriend. Gabriel2052 was born to satisfy any woman’s sexual drive. “Gabriel2052’s library of motor movements will know what I’m turned on by, his fingertips…
How many of you are using electronics to make art? Joe Salatino is one of them. Few days ago Arduino Blog posted Joe Salatino’s project: a robot capable to paint in an autonomous way, portraits. The painting robot was built by Jose Salatino, a painter gone roboticist that used to go around making portraits to famous…
If you enjoy flying quadcopters, for sure you’ll appreciate this project. Andi2345 has shared the guidelines to build a drone that streams 3D video and thanks to goggles you can feel like you are actually in the cockpit. This small and lowcost drone is perfect for indoor exploring. The quadcopter uses two cameras kept in sync with a sync separator IC…
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