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…
esp32 & esp8266
Q8botOne: A Palm-Sized Wire-Free Quadruped on an ESP32-C3
Q8botOne packs eight smart servos and an ESP32-C3 into a 250 g quadruped with no wiring harness. See how its single-PCB design works and…
esp32 & esp8266
TNY-360 v2: An Open-Hardware ESP32-S3 Robot Dog Kit
The TNY-360 v2 quadruped uses an ESP32-S3, modular PCBs, and a 200 Hz control loop on two cores, so legged robotics is less of…
arduino
Webcam Depth Camera: 20 FPS AI Depth Sensing on Arduino VENTUNO Q
A cheap USB webcam and Depth Anything V2 on the Arduino VENTUNO Q NPU make a 20 FPS depth sensor with heatmap, slicer, flood,…
esp32 & esp8266
ESP32-S3 vs Raspberry Pi 5: How Much Edge AI Is Enough?
A $20 ESP32-S3 camera board vs a $200 Raspberry Pi 5 AI kit on a robot mower. See which edge AI hardware your student…
arduino
Robodog V2.0: Arduino UNO Q Gives a DOGZILLA S2 an AI Brain
Robodog V2.0 adds an Arduino UNO Q to a DOGZILLA S2 quadruped, giving it onboard computer vision, a web control page, and an animated…
arduino
JBR-001: A Weekend Desk Robot With Vision on Arduino UNO Q
JBR-001 pairs an Arduino UNO Q with three servos, a camera, and a distance sensor to build a desk robot that recognizes objects and…
news & releases
DirectHop: A 1-Gram Robot That Jumps With a DC Motor
A gram-scale robot swaps its spring for a coreless DC motor, letting researchers dial the jump height with current instead of a fixed release.
microcontrollers
AiboJam Revives Sony’s Discontinued AIBO on a $40 Fruit Jam Board
Sony's discontinued AIBO comes back as a CircuitPython recreation on a $40 RP2350 board, complete with 49 motion clips and native 3D rendering.
arduino
XGO Duck: Build an Open-Source Robot Duck with Arduino UNO Q
Luwu Dynamics built XGO Duck, an open-source, 15-servo robot duck on Arduino UNO Q with a custom IMU-equipped PCB, ready to build before Microduck…
arduino
Arduino UNO Q Robot Talks, Dances, and Reads Your Hand Gestures
A maker built Nuvi, a talking, dancing Shiba Inu desk robot powered by an Arduino UNO Q that splits AI processing from real-time servo…