SpaceX Success!

SpaceX successfully launched today from Cape Kennedy with NASA astronauts for first launch since 2011 and the end of Shuttle missions. Space exploration in the next best thing to robotics. 😀 Doing both things together is the best, of course!

RoverC and FLiP

With the help of Roy Eltham (Parallax Forum friend and programmer extraordinaire), we finally have some success controlling M5Stack's RoverC with the Parallax FLiP microcontroller using BlocklyProp code. Here are some photos (of a temp setup) and a couple of videos showing it work.

Servo Cover!

My friend, Carol Lynn Hazlett, snags ANOTHER Servo cover. Congratulations!

The Short, Strange Life of the First Friendly Robot - IEEE Spectrum

The Short, Strange Life of the First Friendly Robot - IEEE Spectrum - An  incredible article by Yulia Frumer about Japan’s Gakutensoku, a giant pneumatic automaton that toured through Asia—until it mysteriously disappeared. Wonderful research!

Fastening ideas about robotics and human beings. This article is a real fit for this blog. Thank you, Yulia Frumer. 

P.S. I am going to try to correspond with the author and try to get more information.

UPDATE: I got a very kind reply from Dr. Frumer. Looks like she may be contributing more at IEEE Spectrum. I look forward to her articles.

All-Girl Robotics Team Make Low-Cost Ventilator with Car Parts

All-Girl Robotics Team in Afghanistan works on low-cost ventilator with Car Parts! A great story shared by Barnabas Robotics from N.P.R.

Veteran NASA Astronauts and SpaceX

I love this story. NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley will be the first to fly SpaceX's new spaceship on the historic test flight to the International Space Station.

Basketball Hoop Won't Let You Miss

From IEEE Spectrum Video Friday - This Robotic Basketball Hoop Won’t Let You Miss. Thanks, Evan Ackerman, Erico Guizzo and Fan Shi. Very interesting project from Stuff Made Here.

Wireless S3 Programming

In this video I demonstrate how to wirelessly program the Parallax S3 robot using the Parallax WX WiFi Module - DIP using BlocklyProp.

WALL-E Hawaiian Shirt with Guest

My wife saw this shirt on Facebook from a company called LOX Prints. It was labeled "WALL-E AD 1135 Vintage Hawaiian Shirt." Only one problem - it's $49.95 on sale! Cool though.

Drone Hummingbird

In the mountains of Mexico, a spy hummingbird drone ventures into the heart of a breathtaking monarch butterfly swarm. Incredible!

May the Fourth

May the Fourth message from R.U.S.