Month: February 2011
OWI Robot kits – The Solar System – solar kit, OWI-MSK679
Buy Robot kits at http://www.sciencestoreforthestars.com/robot-building-kits.aspx – OWI The Solar System, OWI-MSK679, planets orbit around the solar-paneled sun that drives a motor so the planets actually move, it’s a hands-on lesson about how solar power drives a motor, and you’ll learn about the planets too. Science Store for the Stars sells all OWI Robot kits! Duration…
Robotic Farmer: Prospero, a single member of a robotic swarm
Prospero is the working prototype of an Autonomous Micro Planter (AMP) that uses a combination of swarm and game theory and is the first of four steps. It is meant to be deployed as a group or “swarm”. The other three steps involve autonomous robots that tend the crops, harvest them, and finally one robot…
battlebot full test
The bot weighs around 3lbs and has parts from TheRobotMarketPlace and Hobby-king. Once I rebuild the bot, adding Armour and a metal blade the bot should weigh just under 6 lbs. Duration : 0:0:48
Are There Any Battlebot Kits?
A couple of groups of three from my class are going to have a competition for BattleBots. Me group is buying many, many parts, around $1,700 worth. But we are trying to find a kit around $99 to copy off of. Are there any websites or places that you can buy BattleBot kits from? Any…
Interesting Reading #689 – Hummingbird spy, 3D smartphone, 4-core …
Why the Arduino Won and Why It's Here to Stay – “In about a week, a rep from a large chip company is going to stop by and show me another “Arduino-like platform,” aka The Arduino Killer. This a pretty regular occurrence around here; …The Blogs at HowStuffWorks – http://blogs.howstuffworks.com/