Here is the Paint Machine. It’s a machine the prints simple bitmaps with spray chalk on the street or sidewalk! Awesome robotic project! Some of the key features: dimension: width: 220cm, length: 38cm, height: 24cm, weight: 12kg printing speed: ca. 0.036 km/h resolution (4:3): 61px * 46px, print: 225cm * 170cm swappable print head…
Yesterday we told about Erle Brain 2, the Linux open source drone controller. The board is on the UAV that the guys at Trail by Fire will use to monitor volcanoes on their mission! 15 Volcanoes. 6 Scientists. 1 Land Rover. This is the Trail by Fire. The atmosphere that allows our planet to sustain…
Spanish company Erle produces a full family of DIY drones and devices, like the most interesting controller board, Erle Brains 2. Erle-Brain 2 is the second generation of Linux-based artificial robotic brain for making robots and drones with official support for the Robot Operating System (ROS) and access to the app store. Processor 900MHz quad-core…
The “one man band” of the open source hardware robotics solution. With this shield, making your own robot is plain sailing! The DynamixShield is an electronics board that fits onto an Arduino Due microcontroller to give you the ability to control Dynamixel smart servos and regular servos, while also providing numerous Grove and RobotGeek connectors. Grove and…
An overview on most important open source news from OpenSource.com. This week the focus was on: machine learning: Google, Microsoft, H2O.ai are pushing further their solution to go open open source medical robots: Vanderbilt university is going on working on their capsule medical robots open source mapping tools: a fundamental tool for news mapping and…
A LEGO® compatible robotics toy for all kids. Play, Code & Innovate to develop 21st century skills! Phiro is a robotics & coding platform that teaches problem solving and computational thinking, basic skills required for the next generation. With Phiro, kids can become artists, engineers, economists, astronomers or anything they want. The project has…
Through a website and a paper revealed at a pair of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) conferences, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Pietro Valdastri, Associate Professor of Computer Engineering Akos Ledeczi and their team made the capsule hardware and software open-source. The paper, titled “Systematic Design of Medical Capsule Robots,” ran in a…
The Spanish company Erle announced the release of Erle-Brain 2, a streamlined and enhanced sibling of the first Erle-Brain offering a more powerful product, yet at a lower price. Erle-Brain 2 supports APM and other Dronecode Foundation tools, and enables customers to create tailored, intelligent copters, planes, rovers, boats and spiders. It is multi-platform,…
The third edition of Maker Faire The European Edition starts today with the special event at Mercati Traianei in Rome, featuring Riccardo Luna and Massimo Banzi in the special 4 days event, until October 18th, that will put the focus on Makers movement, innovation, creativity, smart and electric mobility. Don’t miss out this year’s amazing…
International Fab Lab Network members from more than 450 labs in 55 countries gathered last August 2015 in the birthplace of the Fab Lab concept. We come together this year to explore how the ability to “Make (almost) Anything” is impacting individuals, communities, businesses and collaborative research and projects from Detroit to Togo, Barcelona to…
Johns Hopkins University and its Applied Physics Lab is successfully working to an amazing program to give back the sense of touch to people using prosthetics. The new discoveries are part of Darpa Revolutionary Prostethics programme that is financing R&D departments all over the world, like the italian IIT that also released an advanced bionic…
BQ, a spanish company born in 2010 is now selling in many European countries. Became famous for their innovative approach to smartphones and tablets, designed to be affordable but really reliable and resilient: the best product you can buy at that price. BQ vision is to bring the digital and hi-tec manufacturing back to Europe,…
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