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The Simplest Robot Arm
Using a PICAXE Microcontroller to control a simple Robot Arm for Educational use. Duration : 0:1:43
June 17, 2012
Robot toys! Japan’s Tomy shows little dogs, boxers with gesture controls.
The Japanese toy and game developer is displaying a host of innovative controls for its creations at the International Tokyo Toy Show. Duration : 0:1:49
June 17, 2012
Movement synchronization of a group of Nao’s
At the beginning all the robots are waiting for my signal to start. While dancing, they are constantly synchronizing with each other, so if a robot lags behind they will wait for him and the late robot will accelerate. When I remove a robot from the choreography, the others continue dancing. When he stands up…
June 17, 2012
An IBM Selectric II wishes to be a teletype – Arduino
In his blog, Marc from Robot Dialogs presents a very nice hack involving a IBM Selectric II typewriter: by means of an Arduino board and several solenoids, the typewriter can be successfully connected to a computer to emulate a vintage …Arduino Blog
June 17, 2012
Practical Transistor Tutorial w/ Arduino MCU
It’s a lot easier to see if you click on “480p”. Next time I’ll try to use thicker lines and a better compression. Here is my tutorial on NPN transistors. For those of you who know nothing about transistors, this should help a lot. I’m sorry but I cannot get any more high level than…
June 16, 2012

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