While building robotics projects, the importance of controllers and motors cannot be overstated. These components are the heart and soul of any robotic system, providing the necessary control and ...

[Esther Rietmann] and colleagues built a Telepresence Robot to allow work at home teammates to have a virtual, but physical presence in the office. A telepresence robot is like a tablet mounted on a ...

What if your childhood Tamagotchi could step off the screen and into the real world? Imagine a tiny robot, complete with blinking eyes and lifelike movements, responding to your voice and following ...

Daughter boards for microcontroller systems, whether they are shields, hats, feathers, capes, or whatever, are a convenient way to add sensors and controllers. Well, most of the time they are until ...

A variety of factors can propel a Kickstarter project to funding success, but there’s no denying that the sheer seductiveness of the product is a big one. Case in point: RAPIRO. RAPIRO, or RAspberry ...

The Raspberry Pi already makes a pretty great computer for a webcam, but if you want to actually control what that Pi is looking at, you'll need actual movement. Make has a guide to make the Pi ...

Meet Rapiro, the kit robot with a space inside its kawaii head to accomodate the Raspberry Pi microcomputer. The gizmo is the creation of Shota Ishiwatari, the Japanese gadgeteer who came up with a ...

If you’re looking to level up your hardware and programming skills, this isn’t just another build-it-yourself gadget—it’s a robotics and AI training ground disguised as a four-legged companion. The ...