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  • What will be the best way to learn about robotics and programming?

    I’m looking to understand the basics about robotics. There are various basic robot kits on Amazon that I think will be great for a beginner to learn how to assemble a simple set. What do you think will be the best way to learn? These kits seem nice, but they’re more "moving toys" than robots…

  • Why can I not get an internship?

    I am a third year mechanical engineering student at UCLA, I am a lead on our school’s battlebots team, have a 3.45 gpa, and have many extra curriculars. I have applied to 40+ internships. I have had one real interview, that I should hear back from next week, and two phone screenings that I am…

  • Coolest toy ever – BRAVEROBOTICS 1/12 scale Transformer Robot

    Shut Up And Take My Money The coolest toy ever made? Quite possibly. Original here: http://www.youtube.com/user/kenjiishida011 http://www.braverobotics.com/ Duration : 0:3:21

  • (Tiny) Reconfigurable Robots at MIT

    The device doesn’t look like much: a caterpillar-sized assembly of metal rings and strips resembling something you might find buried in a home-workshop drawer. But the technology behind it, and the long-range possibilities it represents, are quite remarkable. The little device is called a milli-motein — a name melding its millimeter-sized components and a motorized…

  • RS-485 node control for Arduino

    Wanting to control a split flap display that was not near a computer [Tom] looked to a common solution for communicating over distances not practical for I2C or SPI. He developed his own hardware and packet format using the RS-485 …Hack a Day

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