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makezine.com » MAKE Magazine - 15 hours ago
At the MIX10 conference this past week, MAKE had a booth embedded inside the Coding4Fun exhibit. We showed off MAKE magazine, some of our Make: Books, and a few kits. Our Coding4Fun neighbors had a lot of great …
makezine.com » MAKE Magazine - 15 hours ago
I recently placed an order for some vibration motors from BGMicro -- a a neat little hobbyist-focused 'tronics seller out of Garland, Texas. They had vibration motors for 69¢ so I threw 10 in my shopping cart. When I …
discovery.com » Discovery News - Top Stories - Mar 19, 2010
A few days ago, I was saddened by the news that we had lost ABE, the Autonomous Benthic Explorer, off the coast of Chile. For 15 years, ABE had plumbed the depths, literally and figuratively, for the Woods Hole …
Also tagged: robots, unmanned autonomous vehicles
slashgear.com » SlashGear - Mar 18, 2010
The Nokia N900 has already shown itself to be one of the more hack-friendly devices out there right now – we’ve seen it flirting with alternative OSes, unusual controllers and more – and the best part is that the …
Also tagged: smartphones, videos, hack, lego, nokia, archive, robot, remote control, twitter, maemo, nokia n900, n900
makezine.com » MAKE Magazine - Mar 18, 2010
NIKO is a collaborative effort to build a Twitter-controlled robot as part of the Noika PUSH N900 Mod in the USA campaign. Recently team member Eric posted this short video showing his progress. At the end of Sunday I …
makezine.com » MAKE Magazine - Mar 17, 2010
Here's a fun thing to do with an older robot that you aren't sure what to do with: turn it into a musical instrument! Using a motor to make music is nothing new, however this approach by LMR user RobotFreak is nice …
discovery.com » Discovery News - Top Stories - Mar 17, 2010
It giggles and then it cries. It coos and then it wails. Ah yes. The wild swing of emotions from babies is now replicated in robots. Engineering students from Tsukuba University north of Tokyo in Japan have given birth …
Also tagged: robots, biomimetics
makezine.com » MAKE Magazine - Mar 12, 2010
We here at MAKE are thrilled to have teamed up with the fine folks at Jameco to bring you The Make: Robot Build. Over the next eight weeks, we'll be featuring a series of tutorials here on the site about the basics of …
xconomy.com » Xconomy People Feed - Mar 11, 2010
There’s no crying in baseball—or in innovation. Yet I’ve been hearing a fair bit of lamenting around town about how Seattle startups or venture capitalists are not making the top-whatever lists (Wall Street Journal …
Also tagged: events, innovation, people, gaming, mobile, computer science, seattle, ideas, competition, amazon, startups, boeing, university of washington, insitu, draper fisher jurvetson, computer vision, aquantive, nathan myhrvold, kiva systems, madrona venture group, intellectual ventures, national blog main, xconomy, seattle blog main, leroy hood, bill bryant, modumetal, christina lomasney, nick hanauer, qliance, david bluhm, mick mountz, dan weld, norm wu, steve seitz, z2live, social mobile gaming, insitute for systems biology
makezine.com » MAKE Magazine - Mar 10, 2010
Guilherme Martins wanted a simple Arduino-compatible board that he could use as a robotics platform, so he designed one. Called the Motoruino, he took a standard Arduino board and added an H-Bridge chip so that it can …