For all the Star Wars lovers, especially those that liked the Episode VII, a must DIY project from DFRobot blog: the home made BB8 Droid! Today, I’m going to teach you how to build a working, life-sized, phone-controlled Starwars BB-8 droid! In this tutorial, we are only going to use household materials and a little…
Electroencephalography (EEG) measures bioelectrical activity in the brain – specifically bio-electrical signals generated by the cerebral cortex nerve cells. The tricky point here is to use those signals to control a small robot car. 1. The EEG sensor receives a signal In order to detect the EEG signals from other noise, we need a reference…
Founded in 2008, DFRobot is a robotics and open source hardware provider, catering to hardware engineers, DIY enthusiasts and interactive designers. Their product catalog boasts over 900 components and widgets from sensors, robotic platform, communication modules to 3D printers. On the official website you can find lots of boards and components for your DIY project….
WeW WeDo2.0 is the new generation of an amazing project bringing Lego and Lego robotics back to school! You may not have been able to play with Lego in school, but your kids can. Lego Education has revealed the WeDo 2.0 robotics kit aimed at elementary school students, over eight years after launching the original…
Maximo is an Arduino driven 5-axis robotic arm with a laser cut acrylic body. The robot comes with Robotic Studio software to control the arm with a gamepad or play series of recorded steps to execute complex automations. Maximo only requires a screwdriver to be assembled or we can sent it to you fully assembled….
United Nations will fund 60 startups to create open source technologies to improve the lives of children in developing countries. Each will receive, if using open source and could show a working prototype, around $50,000. The investment will be channeled through a “Venture Capital” funding method, for a total amount of $9,000,000. Fabian said: “Companies…
GABRI S.R.L. Seastick is an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle released in 2014 and in the same year it won the Toradex Embedded Design Challenge. Roberto Linfante, CEO of the company, founded it in 2004 and led GABRI to scale up impressively year after year, pioneering the underwater drones market. Seastick cutting edge technology is based on…
Dronecode, a nonprofit organization developing a common, shared open source platform for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), has announced major milestones that include investments from 27 new member organizations and the formation of technical working groups to advance the Dronecode open source platform for UAVs. With investments from more than 50 member organizations, Dronecode says it…
The PXFmini is a low cost and open autopilot shield for the Raspberry Pi that allows you to create a ready-to-fly autopilot with support for Dronecode’s APM flight stack. The shield has been designed specially for the Raspberry Pi Zero but it is also compatible with the following boards: Raspberry Pi Raspberry Pi 2 Raspberry…
ESA Astronaut Tim Peake will embark on his six-month mission, Principia. He’ll be conducting scientific experiments and engaging with young people in educational outreach activities. As part of this, he’s taking up two Raspberry Pi computers in purpose-built flight cases, each with camera modules and sensor boards attached. These will be running Python programs written…
Hardware startups are now beginning to enjoy the type of attention that their software counterparts have enjoyed. “The decreasing cost of prototyping is lowering the barriers to entry and making it more feasible to develop a physical product within economic constraints,” begin Renee DiResta, Brady Forrest and Ryan Vinyard in their new book The Hardware…
Farmbot is the first open source cnc farming machine with the aim to create an open and accessible technology aiding everyone to grow food and to grow food for everyone. It runs on open source hardware like Arduino Mega 2560 and involves a community of contributors on the wiki and forum where you can find…
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