While building robotics projects, the importance of controllers and motors cannot be overstated. These components are the heart and soul of any robotic system, providing the necessary control and ...

[Esther Rietmann] and colleagues built a Telepresence Robot to allow work at home teammates to have a virtual, but physical presence in the office. A telepresence robot is like a tablet mounted on a ...

Daughter boards for microcontroller systems, whether they are shields, hats, feathers, capes, or whatever, are a convenient way to add sensors and controllers. Well, most of the time they are until ...

Robotics is a fascinating field that has come a long way in recent years. What was once cutting-edge and prohibitively expensive for consumer-grade projects has rapidly become accessible to the hobby ...

Meet Rapiro, the kit robot with a space inside its kawaii head to accomodate the Raspberry Pi microcomputer. The gizmo is the creation of Shota Ishiwatari, the Japanese gadgeteer who came up with a ...

A variety of factors can propel a Kickstarter project to funding success, but there’s no denying that the sheer seductiveness of the product is a big one. Case in point: RAPIRO. RAPIRO, or RAspberry ...

Raspberry Pi enthusiasts looking for a way to control the position of a camera, arm, pointer or similar may be interested in a new project published on the Hackster.io website this week by MJRoBot.