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May 29, 2014
Air Rocket Glider and Air Rocket Launcher v2.0
With flights well over 200', this is a fun, easy, low-cost, and educational way to learn about rocketry and other things that fly.
Grid Beam is the Life-Size Erector Set
Brothers Phil and Richard Jergenson invented Grid Beam, a full-size modular construction set. It’s kind of like an erector set for grown-ups (and not-so-grow-ups). It’s made from interchangeable parts of wood and metal, bored out to fit hex bolts. Everything is can be assembled and disassembled with minimal tools. At […]
10 Ways to Make Your Robot More Humanlike
Dr. Angelica Lim gives expert advice on making your robot more expressive and humanlike using eyes, voice, motion, and some randomness to its behavior. Dr. Lim is a computer scientist and researcher specializing in A.I., robotics and emotion. 
May 28, 2014
Low-cost Housing Gets a Boost
The deck is stacked against those buying low-income manufactured homes. Though these homes are cheaper in price they’re harder to finance, depreciate in value immediately, and are difficult to insure. Traditional homes offers long-term net benefit to owners; manufactured homes keep owners locked into a downward spiral. This didn’t seem right […]
Rise Robotics’ Cyclone Muscle
You’d expect this company to have been inspired by Iron Man. This team of mechanical engineers is on a mission to bring human scale robotics to the masses. “Human scale” because that’s what will physically help people. The goal of Rise Robotics is to innovate new product to bring costs down, […]
Real-Life Minecraft: Building Forts with Buildies Interlocking Blocks
A new interlocking cardboard block set hopes to give youngsters big tools to make their small-scale, digital creations life-size.
Do you want to Build a Robot?
If you want to build your first robot, you should make one for a competition. The reason you build for a competition is there's a deadline - so it forces you to finish. Once you're there, you'll meet other people doing the exact same thing, so they can be of great help.
Darth Chocolates
Come to the dark side, we have chocolate. Juan Gutierrez does all kinds of 3D printing art, vacuum forming, and various interesting home manufacturing projects. His latest endeavor was quite tasty looking. He combined 3D printing and Vacuum forming to create a dark chocolate Darth Vader mask. He started with […]
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