Robot Punchers with Arduino
James Bruton is well-known for his (often eccentric) inventions, which he regularly documents on his channels. In this video, he demonstrates how he has created remote-controlled rovers that engage in punches. 🙂
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Announced the New NanoPi NEO4: the Cheapest & Smallest RK3399 Board
Just a couple of months ago FriendlyElec introduced the NanoPi M4, which was then the smallest, most affordable Rockchip RK3399 based SBC yet. But now they have launched a $45, Rockchip RK3399 based NanoPi Neo4 SBC with a 60 x 45mm footprint, WiFi/BT, GbE, USB 3.0, HDMI 2.0, MIPI-CSI, a 40-pin header, and -20 to 70℃ support —…
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Nvidia Open Sourced His Deep Learning Accelerator (DLA) Module
This week the company released as open source the designs to a chip module it made to power deep learning in cars, robots, and smaller connected devices such as cameras. That module, the DLA for deep learning accelerator, is somewhat analogous to Apple’s neural engine. Nvidia plans to start shipping it next year in a…
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Marty, the nice educational robot can now feature a Raspberry Pi
Robotical’s hackable, Cortex-M4 based “Marty” educational robot has flexible legs, and can be upgraded with an onboard Raspberry Pi. A startup called Robotical is seeking funds on Indiegogo for a 3D printable, mostly open source, walking robot called Marty. The WiFi-controlled bipedal bot has a 180MHz Cortex-M4 MCU, and is primarily designed to teach kids…
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Hardware startups and products: founder tips making hardware less hard
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…
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The Open Source Snow Plow Robot: discovering the Firmware
[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…
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Here comes the open source Snow Plow Robot
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…
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Balanbot: an Open Source Self-balancing Robot
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….
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Amazon launches Picking Challenge to invent Warehouse Robots of the Future
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…
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Droidles: Little, social, autonomous robots. In Open Source.
Droidles are cute little robots which interact in what the creators call “the worlds largest computer intelligence experiment”. The objective of the project is to build “a distributed multi-swarm of autonomous robots – connected over the internet with a common api “. Pocket sized little Droidles that can wander around, make friends, and learn on their own. Free mobile…
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Scratch Duino: an Open Source Programmable Magnetic Robot on Wheels
Scratch Duino is a highly customizable, simple and interactive open source robot kit based on magnetic-mount sensors. Despite the beauty of the project, it is probably a bit too ambitious in terms of funding! (around 100k$) If want to play with arduino powered robots on wheels you should look into ArduSumo! WHAT IS THE Scratch Duino…
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Apeiros, another Open Source Robot to teach STEM
One can say that we have plenty of Robot platforms in open source: indeed see our offers! This one particularly looks like our Ardusumo. But it’s always good to support these projects! Apeiros is a user friendly, professionally designed open source mobile robot that can be used as a tool for teaching STEM. Apeiros makes it…
