3D printers are all the rage. Not sure where things will be in 10 years but I can’t wait to see what it will be like when you can pick up a 3D printer in Walmart beside the Lexmark all in 1 printer for $150. Printing door knobs and clothes pins will be second nature, just like printing a garage sale sign is today. I am not sure we
 The Sugar Lab 3D sugar printer started as a cool project and has now exploded into a finely tuned sugar printer. “The Sugar Lab is a micro-design firm for custom 3D printed sugar. With our background in architecture and our penchant for complex geometry, we’re bringing 3D printing technology to the genre of mega-cool cakes. 3D printing represents a paradigm shift for confections, transforming sugar into a dimensional, structural
  An Arduino is being used here to power this Chess Playing Robot game that Max Justicz built. The assembly is built using drawer slides, some of these are very tight with some smooth ball bearing action. Nice thing about this platform is it could be used to play any board game that needs to have pieces moved around or as Max mentions, it could be made into a
Seems like anything that is web connectable is hackable. Google Glass now gets added to the list. Many functions on glass are activated by reading in QR codes, it turns out that a malicious QR code can be used to perform some undesirable things!
Chris Rybitski just shared his latest project with us, it’s a Stage Platform Robot. It is a way to remotely move stage items around. He built a 9 inch tall robot that can drive around with 900 pounds on its back. He built the majority of the metal frame from square tubing that has been welded together. There is an Arduino controlling the robotics and a speed controller that
Thanks to Samer Muhi for sending in a video of his latest Quadrotors Wireless Power Transfer project. He is able to power his quadcopter with up to 20watts of energy using resonant inductive coupling. You can see the main coil sitting on the table which is operating at a resonant frequency is 800kHz. On the quadcopter arms you will see the second coil and some circuitry in the board
Marcelino Fort Garcia from Tbi Robotics in Barcelona is producing a high speed low cost pick and place robot. He has made lots of videos demonstrating how he has got to this point. The full code is also available free for everyone to play around with also. He will be updating the blog with new sections as he continues to develop the system. I am looking forward to seeing
