diy projects
BEAM Robot Pet: A Solar Walker With No Microcontroller
ALTco built a battery-free robot pet that roams toward light using 74HC240 chips and coupled oscillators, no code at all. See how it works…
esp32 & esp8266
ESP32-S3 Flight Controller With Pixhawk-Style Ports
The Engineer built a modular ESP32-S3 flight controller with an SPI IMU, split 3.3 V rails, and Pixhawk-style JST-GH ports for any DIY RC…
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…
microcontrollers
LattePanda Sigma 2: 64GB Board with an RP2350 Real-Time Co-Processor
LattePanda's Sigma 2 pairs an Intel Core Ultra X7 with an RP2350 microcontroller for real-time control. Here is what it means for robot and…