arduino
Fetch: An Arduino UNO Q Robot That Plays Ball With You
Fetch pairs an Arduino UNO Q with a custom vision model to chase a ball, scoop it up, and hand it back to you.…
diy projects
SAWbot: One-Motor Amphibious Robot Swims and Crawls on Land
SAWbot swims with a single motor and a traveling-wave membrane, hits 34 cm/s, then drives onto land on treads. Here is how a student…
esp32 & esp8266
ESP-FLUTTER: A 70 g ESP32-C3 Butterfly Robot That Flies
A 70 g ornithopter with two servos, 50 wing LEDs, and a XIAO ESP32C3 brain flaps its way into the air. See how it…
esp32 & esp8266
DIY Lockpicking Robot Uses ESP32-C3, Load Cells and Claude AI
An ESP32-C3, two load cells, and an AI model team up to feel and open pin tumbler locks. Here is the sense-decide-act loop worth…
news & releases
Insect-Inspired Flying Robot Survives Swats and 11,000x Loads
A 185 mg polymer flapper from UCLA and UC Davis lifts three times its weight and keeps flying after a flyswatter hit. Here is…
raspberry pi
Omnibot Upgrade: Raspberry Pi 5 and AI Camera Revive a 1984 Robot
Mario Cruz gave a 1984 Tomy Omnibot a Raspberry Pi 5, an IMX500 AI camera and an OLED eye, all controlled with audio tones.…
microcontrollers
BeagleConnect QuadESC Drives Four Brushless Motors at Once
BeagleBoard's QuadESC pairs a 200 MHz Cortex-M33 module with four motor drivers rated 40 A each. Here is what it means for student robot…
robotics
Luxonis OAK 4 FFC Puts Five Cameras on One Robot Board
Luxonis' OAK 4 FFC links five MIPI cameras to a 48 TOPS vision module with PoE+, CAN bus and GPIO. See what it means…
diy projects
Bot Reborn: A $4 Toy Robot Gets Voice Control and an AI Brain
A $4 toy robot, an FT232H and a tiny fine-tuned model add up to a voice-controlled bot with 200 ms reflexes. See how Bot…
diy projects
Stereo Vision Board Gives Arduino Robots Depth Sensing
A hobbyist's RV1103 board pairs two global-shutter cameras for depth sensing, so a small Arduino robot can dodge obstacles without a host computer.
robotics
MIT Roughened Optical Fibers Sense 3D Shape in Soft Silicone
MIT embedded roughened rubber waveguides in silicone to track 3D shape with under 0.4 cm error. Here's how to try the same light-loss trick…
diy projects
PhoneBot: Turn an Old Android Phone into a $400 Humanoid Robot
UCLA's PhoneBot uses a $50 Android phone as the brain of a 13-joint humanoid. See how it works and how to try the same…