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Dan O’Mara: Turning Robotics Education on its Head | Sense Think Act Podcast #19
Audrow Nash and Sense Think Act Podcast
24 May 2022
In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks to Dan O'Mara, who is the founder and COO of Circuit Launch and Mechlabs. Circuit Launch is a space for hardware entrepreneurs to work in Oakland, California, and M...
Building a 7 axis robot from scratch
Daniel Carrillo-Zapata
11 Apr 2021
Do you fancy making yourself an industrial robot to enjoy at home? Jeremy Fielding, a passionate fan of mechanical engineering, did. So he built one. Good news is: he's preparing a series of videos to...
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Misty II: A Robotics Platform for Developers, with Ian Bernstein
Audrow Nash
07 Apr 2019
In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks with Ian Bernstein, Founder and Head of Product at Misty Robotics, about a robotics platform designed for developers called Misty II. Bernstein discusses the moti...
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Open Source Prosthetic Leg, with Elliott Rouse
Audrow Nash
06 Jan 2018
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Elliott Rouse, Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan, about an open-source prosthetic leg—that is a robotic knee and ankle. Rouse’s goal is to p...
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Robot Academy, with Peter Corke
Audrow Nash
22 Jul 2017
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Peter Corke, Professor of Robotics at the Queensland University of Technology and Director of the Australian Centre for Robotic Vision, about Robot Academy. Rob...
The cheap arm project: An affordable, open-source robotics project
Dominic Cassidy and Guido Bugmann
30 Mar 2017
What do you get when you put together wood and rope? Well according to Plymouth University's Professor Guido Bugmann: a low-cost, open source, 2 meter tall robot! All buildable for under £2000. The C...
UgCS photogrammetry technique for UAV land surveying missions
SPH Engineering
09 Mar 2017
UgCS is easy-to-use software for planning and flying UAV drone-survey missions. It supports almost any UAV platform, providing convenient tools for areal and linear surveys and enabling direct ...
NAIST OpenHand M2S released
Felix von Drigalski
16 Feb 2017
The NAIST OpenHand M2S was developed by a team of students as part of the school’s annual CICP project (read the blog post about it here), in which students can propose and organize their own resear...
Mapping in the Cloud
Markus Waibel and Gajan Mohanarajah
23 Dec 2013
UPDATE: New video of a collaborative, cloud-based mapping experiment. Mapping is essential for mobile robots and a cornerstone of many more robotics applications that require a robot to interact with...
Breaking it down with the DanceBot: Getting started with electronics
Raymond Oung
12 Oct 2013
The MP3 DanceBot is a little robot that dances to the beat of your music. It’s a project that began in the summer of 2011 to introduce students to the basics of electronics and robotics. Students le...
My pathway to robotics
Jaidyn Edwards
25 Sep 2013
My name is Jaidyn Edwards. I am eighteen years old and live in South Australia. For me, being interested in robotics was part of an evolutionary process built upon a few core interests I had as a chil...
Making a WALL-E robot
John Payne
07 Aug 2013
http://youtu.be/7oVSaUWeKt0
We take you now to sunny, southern California, where a small group of enthusiasts has constructed a very realistic, Arduino-based replica of Pixar's WALL-E, entirely fro...
Campus Party Europe comes to the O2 in London September 2-7
Robohub Editors
12 Jul 2013
Up to 10,000 young geeks from across Europe will camp out in tents and sleeping bags for five days of intense 24/7 hacking, networking and elbow-rubbing with experts from some of the world's most infl...
Up and flying with the AR.Drone and ROS: Handling feedback
Mike Hamer
01 Jul 2013
This is the third tutorial in the Up and flying with the AR.Drone and ROS series.
In this tutorial we will:
Learn about the AR.Drone's state feedback (and how it is handled by ROS)
Learn a...
VLAB: Drones – The commercial era takes off, but breaking the law is going to blow-up in our faces
Robert Morris
26 Mar 2013
Last Tuesday I had the pleasure of attending VLAB: Drones – The Commercial Era Takes Off at Stanford GSB. The event was truly fantastic and the panel was amazing. The moderator was Chris Anderson,...
How to build a robot arm out of cardboard | CNET
Hallie Siegel
25 Mar 2013
Tired of picking things up off the floor? Want to turn your living space into a life-sized claw machine game? A new Instructable shows you how to turn a bunch of old boxes into a robotic crane arm wit...
Chris Anderson, Marc Raibert and Steven Cousins at Engadget Expand Event
Frank Tobe
19 Mar 2013
"Moore's Law has never moved faster than is moving inside the phone you've already got in your pocket. The pace of development and the price performance curve is moving faster in smartphones than it's...
MotherboardTV documentary on drones
John Payne
09 Feb 2013
http://youtu.be/kwkxx84wXNo
This video, by MotherboardTV, was posted on YouTube in early December, but, at just over 50,000 views, it hasn't yet reached the audience it deserves.
Not knowing muc...
SparkFun’s headlong, patent-free approach to product design | Wired Design
John Payne
23 Jan 2013
“Electronics supplier SparkFun designs dozens of products a year and they haven't patented a single one. It's worked out pretty well so far.”
See full article on wired.com...
Up and flying with the AR.Drone and ROS: Joystick control
Mike Hamer
04 Jan 2013
This is the second tutorial in the Up and flying with the AR.Drone and ROS series.
In this tutorial we will:
Talk about the ROS communication hierarchy
Setup a joystick to work with ROS
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Up and flying with the AR.Drone and ROS: Getting started
Mike Hamer
10 Dec 2012
Updated December 17th.
In this tutorial (#1) we will:
Install ROS, the AR.Drone driver and AR.Drone keyboard controller
Fly the AR.Drone using the provided keyboard controller...
Deep in the woods, this reclusive toymaker builds his robot army | Wired.com
Andra Keay
08 Oct 2012
Mantzel is an inventor, a recluse, and probably the internet's most popular toymaker. The Giant Robot Project is his masterpiece -- a massive, spider-like walking android he fashioned out of steel and...
Workshop pictures from DIY Drones
Ioannis K. Erripis
04 Oct 2012
Amanda DeMatto, a writer for Gizmodo.com is working on a series called "Where the Magic Happens", she requested workshop pictures from the DIYdrones community and the result is a very interesting thre...
