Category Archives: Robot Projects

Let’s Make Robots

Looking for a wonderful place to see, learn and talk about robots? Try http://letsmakerobots.com/

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S.P.A.R.K.

Looking for educational resources about robotics? Try S.P.A.R.K. (Starter Programs for the Advancement of Robotics Knowledge) at http://spark.irobot.com/. This website, sponsored by iRobot, the makers of the Roomba, has educational resources, links and videos and much more. Check it out!

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Top 40 Arduino Projects of the Web

Had to share this “TOP 40 Arduino Projects” Link with everyone!

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Wii Remote .NET

Two seniors (Brian MAcArthur and Stephen McKinney) at the University of Memphis Engineering Technology Department created a program to use the Wii remote with a Microbot TeachMover Roboto. They started with WiimoteLib which is a .NET managed library for using … Continue reading

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Meet IOIO – I/O for Android

From: http://ytai-mer.blogspot.com/2011/04/meet-ioio-io-for-android.html By: Ytai I’m very excited to announce the launch of a new product I’ve been working on for the past months! IOIO (pronounced: yo-yo) is a product which lets you connect electronic circuits to an Android device and … Continue reading

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Robot Operating Systems and Software

http://www.ros.org/wiki/ ROS (Robot Operating System) provides libraries and tools to help software developers create robot applications. It provides hardware abstraction, device drivers, libraries, visualizers, message-passing, package management, and more. http://www.microsoft.com/robotics/ The Microsoft® Robotics Developer Studio 2008 R3 (Microsoft RDS) is … Continue reading

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Midsouth Makers – Update

Went to the Midsouth Makers meeting this past Friday. Great group. Not only did they do a hands on soldering demo, but also had mini talks on making your own chainmail and a computer project in the preliminary stages. I … Continue reading

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Mid South Makers

Was just contacted by the Mid South Makers (http://www.midsouthmakers.org/). I didn’t even know about the group until now, but if you read this blog you are probably already aware of HackerSpaces, but if you are not, watch this: They are … Continue reading

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Make your own circuit boards

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A New Way to Show off your Bot

A friend of mine from Triangle Amateur Robotics (TAR) cub has started a new website to show off your robots. You can find it at http://beta.robotbox.net/.

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