Do Your Part to Stop the Robot Uprising
One of the pleasures of consuming old science fiction movies and novels is that they capture the mood of the time in which they are written. Captain Kirk was a 1960s guy and Picard was a 1990s guy,...
View ArticleRobot Dogs Hack Chat
Join us on Wednesday, September 29 at noon Pacific for the Robot Dogs Hack Chat with Afreez Gan! Thanks to the efforts of a couple of large companies, many devoted hobbyists, and some dystopian science...
View ArticleBuilding A Multi-Ton Power Loader For Fun
Exoskeletons, power suits, and iron suits in science fiction have served as the inspiration for many engineers and engineering projects over the years. This is certainly the case at [Hacksmith...
View ArticleThis Machine-Vision Ekranoplan Might Just Follow You Home
What is it that’s not quite either a plane or a boat, but has characteristics of both? There are probably a lot of things that fit that description, but the one that [Nick Rehm] is working on is known...
View ArticleRobot Repeatedly Rearranges Remnants in the Round
Sisyphus is an art installation by [Kachi Chan] featuring two scales of robots engaged in endless cyclic interaction. Smaller robots build brick arches while a giant robot pushes them down. As [Kachi...
View ArticleArctos Robotics: Build A Robot Arm Out Of 3D Printer Spares?
ARCTOS is a 6-DOF robot arm based upon 3D printed mechanics running a modified version of GRBL firmware. Let’s get this straight now, the firmware is open source, but the hardware plans are a paid...
View Article3D Printed Robot Wants To Be Your Pet
Robots are cool. Robots you build yourself are cooler, especially ones that use stuff you have lying around already. Snoopy is a new open-source robot that uses an Arduino as a brain but with a 3D...
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