High School Robotics Competition is Attracting More Girls Than Ever
I think I've been rather fortunate that I've been able to meet a lot of interesting women in robotics,
Development in HCI M3 Robot used for research, melts hearts
The M3-Neony and M3-Synchy were developed as baby bots aimed at testing machine learning software, and specifically to take a look at fine motor skill development.
New LinkedIn Group for Hobby Robotics, MITs MeBot takes telerobotics to the next level
Today I have an interesting tidbit for those of you on LinkedIn ! There is now a LinkedIn group for hobby roboteers!
Firmware 1.29 is out
New and improved, twice as tasty and fewer calories! LEGO has published version 1.29 of the Mindstorms firmware. There is as of yet no information available regarding changes since 1.28.
An Underwater Robot that Plans its own Experiments
The Gulper AUV is an underwater vehicle that is programmed to look for information of use to the scientific community.
New mux on the block
I posted earlier on my blog about the new motor MUX that is being made by a Ukrainian company, HOLIT Data Systems.
GoRobotics February Robot Prize Giveaway!
It's time once again to give away some cool robot prizes to celebrate the 10th birthday of GoRobotics! If you didn't win last month's contest, have no fear, try again this month (and the month after!
Underwater Robot to Find and Detonate WW-II Mines in Baltic Sea
Russian gas company Gazprom wants to build an oil pipeline from Vyborg, Russia to Greifswald, Germany. The pipeline will supply 26 million homes with natural gas for heating.
The Story of Matt Bunting and the Hexapod that Intel Bought
Matt Bunting's story should be inspiring to anyone out there who builds robots.
I Need Your Help! Give Feedback on Secret Project RobotBox!
Hey loyal readers, I need your help. You may have noticed that things have been a bit quiet around here for a while a long while, actually.
UK Robot Drone Nails First Perp
Hi everyone, I'm Angelina and I've just jumped on board with GoRobotics as of late.
National Robotics Week is Coming in April
If Presidents, Veterens, and Laborors get only a day, what do we give robotics? How about a whole week! That's right, National Robotics Week has been announced and is slated for April 10-18, 2010.
Firgelli Linear Actuator
Ive been lucky enough to have had the pleasure of trying out the new Firgelli Linear Actuator (LA) for a little while now and its awesome.
DARPA's Quest for a Working Prosthetic Arm
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The video above is worth watching for two reasons. One, the amount of engineering and hard work put into these arms and legs is astounding.
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LEGO Lovin': MEDbot is good for what ails you
MEDbot is good for what ails you The Brothers Brick LEGO Blog.
NASA Says Spirit Rover Stuck for Good
After months of trying, NASA is calling it quits on freeing the Spirit rover from the Martian sand that it's been stuck in since May of 2009.
JANUARY GIVEAWAY 10 Years of GoRobotics!
It's time to kick start our 10 Years of GoRobotics celebration! Our first giveaway features some great prizes from our sponsors, SuperDroid Robots, Apress, Pololu and Trossen Robotics.
dSwitch Aquasaurs Temp Monitor
We recently picked up one of those Aquasaurs kits for the kids which lets you hatch and care for some neat little aquatic fish (or shrimp) that date back to pre-historic times.
DualGrip - NXTRover (DG)
Hey folks,
It's been a while since I last made a bot. My latest is DualGrip - NXTRover (or DG for short). I wont go into great detail as all info (with videos) can be found at my site http://www.
AR.Drone iPhone Controlled Quadrocopter Unveiled at CES2010
A french company, named Parrot, unveiled an iPhone controlled, wifi-enabled, quadrocopter at CES 2010. The robot, called the AR.
Using the LEGO color sensor with NXC
The NXT 2.0 retail set comes with a new color sensor. It is an analog sensor rather than I2C like the HiTechnic color sensors.
Top 10 Robots of the Past 10 Years Robots of the Decade Awards
As we say goodbye to the 200x's and welcome the 201x's it's good to pause a bit and think about the world as it was ten years ago.
GoRobotics 2009 in Review, and 2010 Starting Our Tenth Year!
Welcome to 2010 everyone! Thanks for making 2009 a great year for GoRobotics.net. We saw a 40% increase in visits from 2008, and more than doubled the number of subscribers to our RSS feed.
Underwater ROV Jason Captures Rare Volcano Eruption
The famous underwater ROV (remotely operated vehicle), Jason, which was integral in discovering the wreck of the Titanic and other famous ships,
LEGO NXT Building Animals Ideas
Fay Rhodes has done some excellent work with both her books regarding building LEGO NXT Animals.
The first book, is the Zoo Book. You can buy it at Amazon.
Its Christmas Time
OK. It's Christmas time and that means time for making a list right?
I have two Christmas requests this year.
1) An Amazon Kindle DX.
2) Amazon Gift Certificates.
Fixes and features
It's hard to program when you're dosed down with cold medicine and you keep coughing over and over again until you're not only sick you're sick of coughing. That's me right now, unfortunately.
BricxCC and the Bluetooth Blues
Several people have posted questions on the nxtasy forums asking for help connecting to their NXT via Bluetooth using the Bricx Command Center (BricxCC).
Amazon sale LEGO Mindstorms NXT 2 Best Price
Amazon has a sale going right now. $227 US for the LEGO Mindstorms NXT 2 kit.