November 2010

Flexible Robot Gripper
Cool Gadgets

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Our friend Carlos made the Flexible Robot Gripper shown above. It’s based on the one made by a team at Cornell University, the University of Chicago and iRobot demonstrated in the video below. I wonder if this is the future of robot grippers? I worked in a company where the robot we were working with had the typical grippers and when programming them there was no room for error since

A Look Inside GirlTech Sugar Cubes
Electronic Hacks

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Joby Taffey from EE-Fail cracked open a GirlTech Sugar Cube to see what made them tick. You are able to decide what type of device you have by playing with the configuration jumpers. I am not surprised at how shitty the build quality looks, I guess the only QC is if the thing works and not how well it was constructed.