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Charles has built a magnificent robotic smoking dumpster project: This is a little mini-project that I decided to fork into its own narrative because I figured more than I would find it useful. I...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/10/31/your-waifu-is-still-trash-design-and-build-of-the-double-barreled-vape-cannon/

This vintage Radio Shack mechanical Robie coin bank from the 80s is so much fun to watch when it feeds itself a coin. The coin bank is designed to look like a cute, googly-eyed robot. When a coin...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/10/29/robie-the-coin-eating-robot-a-look-at-radio-shacks-mechanical-bank-shacktoberfest/

Shawn Hymel and Odd Jayy from DigiKey introduce Digit, a one-of-a-kind, bug-like AI companion that sits on your shoulder and engages in real conversations! Created through a collaboration between...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/10/15/digit-the-companion-bot-that-talks-to-you-a-local-ai-in-action-digikey/

Anyone who owned a Radio Shack Armatron robotic arm in the 80s likely has fond memories of it. I still have mine, with all of the accessories, and it still works! In this 8-Bit Guy video, he rest...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/10/11/8-bit-guy-restores-a-radio-shack-armatron-from-the-80s-2/

Via @robotrockglobal on Twitter The first robot vacuum in space: all part of a plan to clean up space debris? No. More of a PR stunt, but still a feat of engineering. All young robots take note; ...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/10/07/surviving-the-extreme-conditions-of-space-the-little-roborock-vacuum-that-could/

NEW PRODUCTS – Horizontal + Vertical Micro Servo Mounts for LEGO-Compatible Brick Systems Vertical Micro Servo Mount for LEGO-Compatible Brick Systems Who doesn’t love LEGO-compatible bricks?...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/09/19/new-products-horizontal-vertical-micro-servo-mounts-for-lego-compatible-brick-systems/

Most robots rolling out are being planned for industrial settings. 1X’s NEO is more of a home companion robot. Pre-production beta models are currently being sent to homes for testing. More tha...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/09/11/humanoid-robots-head-to-homes-meet-the-neo-beta/

Rahix and Lena both really wanted to dive into the topic of pneumatics. They searched for a small project to build. Those who know me (rahix) personally have probably at some point noticed my wei...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/09/10/folding-paper-flowers-with-a-pneumatic-robot-arttuesday/

A recent article in the journal ScienceRobotics is interesting. Researchers at Cornell have come up with a novel way to control a walking robot: with a mushroom. Cornell explained in a press rel...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/09/04/a-robot-controlled-by-a-light-sensitive-mushroom/

Was doing research for one type of outside robot and ended up looking a bunch more, here are some of my notes in a blog post format that might be helpful or interesting to someone. For residentia...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/09/01/robot-round-up-yard-helping-robots-and-a-few-others-notes/

curiosity-creates shared this vide on Youtube! Check out the Robotics & CNC category in the Adafruit shop! In my previous video, I built a stepper motor based belt driven wireless actuator. In th...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/08/26/6-axis-robot-with-stepper-motor-based-actuator/

The Adafruit Feather ecosystem is so rich with hardware diversity, we wanted to share them, one each day. Today is the Adafruit DC Motor + Stepper FeatherWing Add-on For All Feather Boards! This ...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/08/26/featherwing-of-the-day-dc-motor-stepper-featherwing-wingoftheday/

Part 2 of Desk of Ladyada! Last week, we tackled a battery issue with our old PLEO dinosaur robot by sourcing high-capacity NiMH packs from DigiKey. And, we’ll look at the need for a specific 1...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/08/25/3pm-et-today-desk-of-ladyada-raaawwwwwr-pleo-battery-repair/

The Island Robotics Servo Controller allows for manual control two servos. It features configurable range, a screen showing servo positions, and save/recall position buttons. Features Independent...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/08/20/island-robotics-servo-controller-tindie/

Inspired by origami, this cube-based robot could one day serve as a reconfigurable lunar exploration and colonization vessel. Researchers from North Carolina State University have created a “tr...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/07/31/a-transformer-bot-shifts-into-1000-shapes-with-just-three-motors/

Two teams of successful high school students with Storming Robots Technology Learning Lab in the US recently won world titles from this year’s international RoboCup Junior (RCJ) competition. He...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/07/31/adafruit-products-used-at-robocup-junior-competition-in-the-netherlands/

Keith Hammond of Make: talked with Catie Cuan. Cuan, a dancer and engineer, works with “choreobotics” The art of robot movement (not to be confused with robotic movement). We are on the preci...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/07/30/emotion-in-robot-motion-arttuesday/

With feet and legs like a peregrine falcon, Stanford University engineers have created a robot that can perch and carry objects like a bird. “It’s not easy to mimic how birds fly and perch,�...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/07/29/stanford-engineers-create-a-perching-bird-like-robot/

Thomas the Maker set out to make an inexpensive robo-car that anyone can build! Enter PlayCar. This is PlayCar, controlled by your phone & powered by AAs. Meant to make this as easy & cheap as po...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/07/21/playcar-an-rc-car-thats-easy-to-build-fun-to-play-with/

Adafruit Forum user Autonomous_Sailboat (James on YouTube) describes development (design, construction, programming and testing) of an autonomous sailboat that incorporates GPS and electronic com...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/07/09/building-an-autonomous-sailboat-microchipmakes/

The robots are skilling up. From barista to manufacturing! Via Interesting Engineering: In January 2024, Figure signed its first commercial agreement with BMW to deploy its humanoid robot in the ...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/07/06/figure-01-coffee-making-humanoid-robot-now-shows-car-assembly-skill-at-bmw/

Check out this new Learn Guide by John Park and take control of your motors with the Servo Boss! Plug in two servo motors and test out their performance, settings, range, and angles with a Circui...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/07/03/servo-boss/

No robot has been able to come close to the agility nature has already created. Scientist are creating virtual rats to get robots a little more nimble. Via The Harvard Gazette: Bence Ölveczky, p...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/06/25/scientists-take-agility-lessons-from-a-rat/

It’s been a few decades, is this how Lawnmower Man starts? Nerdy Things built this robo lawnmower that you can sit back and control like a video game. Get a FPV view of the lawn-clipping action...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/06/17/meet-lawny-phone-controlled-fpv-lawnmower-with-raspberry-pi-raspberrypi/

In this video from Breaking Taps on YouTube, you’ll learn about rolling contact joints and how breaking taps is hoping to use them in an project

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/05/20/what-are-rolling-contact-joints/

Once again nature shows the way. In a quest to build a micro avian robot Breaking Taps shows how rolling joints work. I like that they used a 3D printer to upscale and prototype how the final pro...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/05/19/emulating-biology-to-make-tiny-robots/

The band that has inspired nightmarish games, tv shows and movies (and infinite actual nightmares) is finally hanging up the wires. Rumblings of Munch’s Make Believe Band‘s last set have been...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/05/15/farewell-chuck-e-cheese-animatronic-band/

Kevin McAleer shared this video on Youtube! He Built a Fortune Telling Robot Based on Voltar from the movie Big Join me as we learn how to build a fun interactive exhibit for Open Sauce 2024 in S...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/05/13/fortune-telling-robot-built-with-a-raspberry-pi/

Need to debug your robot or drone? In a HSLU university research project, Erich Styger is using a Pixhawk and PX4 based drone hardware. Pixhawk and PX4 is an open standard for drone hardware and...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/05/09/making-a-debug-probe-for-robots-and-pixhawk-with-kicad/

We love this super adorable build from maker Tony K. Mr. Wallplate’s face is made from common items that would not normally be seen in a robot: a toggle/duplex wallplate for the face, ½ pingpo...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/05/07/mr-wallplate-can-speak/

Anyone who’s been to GitHub before has no doubt come across the unforgettable Octocat mascot. Its pointy ears and friendly smile accompany a wide library of code shared by thousands of people o...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/04/17/raspberry-pi-brings-githubs-octocat-to-life-with-moving-tentacles/

Today Boston Dynamics announced the retirement of their Atlas robot. Boston Dynamics shared this video on Youtube! For almost a decade, Atlas has sparked our imagination, inspired the next genera...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/04/16/farewell-to-hd-atlas/

Paul Bupe, Jr explores the research and development journey behind a new sensor system, OptiGap, a key component of his PhD research. In very general terms, this sensor is basically a rope that i...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/04/12/making-sensors-for-soft-robotic-applications/

This guide builds upon the computer vision system from the previous guide to build a playful robot that uses the Adafruit MEMENTO to capture an image, detect a face, and track it until the face i...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/04/12/face-tracking-robot-with-memento-roboweek-nationalroboticsweek-roboweek-makerobotfriend/

The swing ride or “chair o planes” is a popular and famous ride at carnivals and amusement parks. The ride uses centrifugal force to lift you up and up as you spin faster! We get to make one ...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/04/11/crickit-powered-mini-chair-swing-ride/

Here’s a robotics project using 3D printed Magnetic PLA, from the Ruiz brothers via Adafruit Learning System! In this project we’ll show you how to bring creatures to life using magnetic fila...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/04/10/robotic-creatures-printed-in-magnetic-pla-roboweek-nationalroboticsweek-roboweek-makerobotfriend/

Evan’s Techie-Blog has been looking to recreate the boards used in the animatronics control unit f(left, above) or Chuck-E-Cheese restaurants. The first board I’m going to talk about is the C...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/04/09/recreating-a-chuck-e-cheese-animatronic-cpu-board/

Its RoboWeek and we are highlighting this guide from the Adafruit Learn system! Make a small CRICKIT based hopping robot 🙂 In this guide we will build a cute little robot body. We’ll even d...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/04/09/crickit-wobblybot-roboweek-nationalroboticsweek-roboweek-makerobotfriend/

In celebration of National Robotics Week, we’re highlighting some of our favorite robotics guides by John Park, all available on the Adafruit Learn System. Check em’ out below! Automatic Mech...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/04/08/robotics-projects-from-john-park-roboweek-nationalroboticsweek-roboweek-makerobotfriend/

Tomorrow marks the start of National Robotics Week 2024, which will run through April 14! Did you know this year marks 15 years of robotics week? Wow 🤩 We’ve very into making robot friends s...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/04/05/national-robotics-week-2024-roboweek-nationalroboticsweek-roboweek-makerobotfriend/

Sunday Slays Cosplay is working on building an animatronic Clank backpack and is documenting the process on YouTube. Keep on making robot friends! My 3d print files not currently available. Altho...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/03/10/sunday-slays-cosplay-builds-a-clank-animatronic-backpack/

HackSpace Magazine Issue 75 – DIY Gadgets looks at the Zumo robot for Arduino available at Adafruit. The Zumo Robot is an Arduino-based tracked robot that is less than 10 cm × 10 cm, which qua...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/03/03/hackspace-magazine-issue-75-zumo-robot-chassis-hackspacemag-raspberry_pi-adafruit/

In this rather mesmerizing video, Fraser reconstructs one of the ancient Greek engineer Hero’s programmable automata. He builds everything by hand, starting with turning trees into lumber. The ...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/02/24/building-hero-of-alexandrias-programmable-automata-by-hand/

Mehdi Alizadeh at Make Your Pet is using smartphones to not only control robots but also using them as the brains on the robot itself. The Hexapod GitHub has details on making ones own hexapod ro...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/02/22/make-your-own-pet-hexapod-robotics-rp2040-raspberrypi-makeyourpet/

We would not recommend using MOONWALK-Omni to climb, say, Mounts Kilimanjaro or Olympus, but for more modest mountains or more refreshingly non-dangerous hikes, MOONWALK may be just right. The we...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/02/14/wearable-robot-helps-seniors-go-climb-a-mountain-wearablewednesday/

Dispensy is a project looking to be the new hardware base for the DrinkRobotics UbaBot. The main logic and user / web interface is a Bartendro fork running on a Raspberry Pi RP2040. This is the ...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/01/30/dispensy-a-new-hardware-base-for-the-drinkrobotics-ubabot-robotics-rp2040-drinkbot-xythobuz/

On YouTube Washington Post shared footage of how a robot is recreating the stone finials of the Washington National Cathedral damaged by an earthquake in 2011. Make robot friend!

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/01/14/a-robot-is-helping-rebuild-the-washington-national-cathedral/

Charles at Equals Zero discusses taking two robots to Comicpalooza this past summer: Robots in mid-July in Houston sounds like a great way to get heat stroke, but it was a chance to do some shake...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/01/03/taking-ones-battlebots-to-comicpalooza-robotics/

The Yozh robot was created to teach robotics class at a summer camp, SigmaCamp. Alexander Kirillov wanted something small, programmable in Python, and easy to extend. Key features Dimensions: Len...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2023/12/20/the-yozh-robot-using-an-esp32-s3-programmed-in-circuitpython-robotics-circuitpython-islandrobotics/

In HackSpace Magazine Issue 73, they investigate making a Pi 5 robot with various components. The article goes through picking hardware and software. Hardware includes the venerable Adafruit DC &...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2023/12/19/raspberry-pi-5-robotics-hackspace-magazine-issue-73-robotics-hackspacemag/