NUA is organizing the annual 2015 conference on Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, The Drone Data X Conference. It is an event taking place where some of the best minds in UAV technology can meet and share ideas, as well as enjoy Kite surfing,Mountain Biking, and Surfing in Beautiful Santa Cruz, California, from May 1st to 3rd….
Critics of the open source economy point out that “Open source is a system of development that doesn’t have the requisite positive feedback loops needed to build a viable economic system.” Open Source Ecology released their “4 years review” demonstrating the contrary. OSE mission is to build the 50 machines fundamental to live our modern…
[youtube id=”tCZE3e39XkM” width=”620″ height=”360″] Just a few weeks ago, we presented in this blog the maker version of a motorized snowplow, similar to those available in many bricolage shopping malls. In fact our robot is a particular caterpillar track, a miniature version of the traditional snowplow but that can be radio controlled easyly with…
A research group at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (iaac.net), based in Barcelona set on a goal of re-elaborating 3D printing techniques to overcome existing limitations for large scale application. Here are the first results: “The objective was to develop a family of small scale construction robots, all mobile and capable of constructing…
The recently launched Robots for Good campaign, mixing InMoov with Open Wheels has been featured on the Guardian: “I thought, ‘Let’s try to blend it with another project we have on the Wevolver website, which is an open-source Segway called Open Wheels, so the robot could drive on the wheels of the Segway and we wouldn’t…
Everybody loves a visit to the zoo. And for a kid it can be an especially magical experience. But if you’re hospitalised, a trip out is easier said than done. For some children, it’s simply impossible. The ambitious Robots for Good project, an initiative by London based Wevolver, is going to change this. Giving hospitalized…
We present a caterpillar robot based on Arduino Uno, remotely controlled through a Play Station 2 wireless controllers. Since we are not insensitive to solutions making life easier, we have considered the idea of creating and proposing something that could help us avoiding the cold and fatigue of using the usual manual shovel and…
Interesting project which deals with one of the most interesting context where open source is expanding so far: robots. It’s great to help young engineers and geeks wrangle more with one armed – industrial like – robots in open source! Low cost, easy to build and simple to control, MeArm is designed to make learning with…
Another interesting educational project on kickstarter, Balanbot is a self balancing robot designed in Open Source The self-balancing Robot is an interesting educational toy. Many friends around us were trying to build one, but they encountered many challenges including the lack of the parts that are easy to assemble, suitable electronic circuits, and sample programs….
Amazon launched a contest to build the robots for the warehouse of the future. If you’re interested in robotics, this could be a nice opportunity to play with some really advanced platforms, or to build one. We encourage participants to construct and bring their own systems to the contest. Contestants are not limited to using…
Apparently Linux Foundation is planning to work on a reliable and open source software platform for UAV: “Dronecode would help advance technologies in data analysis, storage and display for drones and accelerate adoption of more affordable and – ahem – more reliable open-source software for UAVs.” The Linux Foundation is targeting drones through a project…
This cool robot project called Hack-E-Bot started as a challenge to see if it was possible to create a scalable robotics platform for under $50 which also requires no special tools and easy of people to build. Hack-E-Bot is a low price and open source robot that hopes to encourage children to learn about engineering, electronics, and…
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