ROBOTS DREAMS

Make Magazine highlights 3D manufacturing at home (Video)

The latest issue of Make Magazine, Volume 21, focuses on manufacturing at home and everything that’s necessary to make that a reality. And, of course, the main feature is the Makerbot Cupcake CNC system. The Make editors think highly enough of the Makerbot that they dedicated the magazine cover to the hot 3D printer and one of its most visible, and talkative, creators: Bre Pettis.

Check out the video below for an enlightening interview with Bre, a tour of the Makerbot “Bot Cave”, and a general overview of the magazine issue.

Cute, funny, insect like, ecological robot (Video)

The unique RoboKnit “hello, world” robot, created by Hanakomet and Osamu Iwasaki, combines robot technology, an ecology theme, and knitting in a way that is amusing, cute, and thought provoking. The project was produced by the MechaRobo Craft Club here.

Robot Artist Festival in Takamatsu scheduled

There’s what looks like a totally awesome Robot Artist Festival scheduled for February 21^st in Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture. The event is generating a tremendous amount of interest in the area and the organizers reported that the first block of 800 tickets quickly sold out.

In addition to robot demonstrations, a robotic petting zoo, and exhibitions of robot artist works, the day’s agenda includes major presentations by leading experts on virtual reality (Dr. Sidney Fels ? ArtiSynth), play robot factory, robot speech and drawing, and anime robots.

Innovati Robotinno humanoid on deck (Video)

The postman rang the doorbell with a delivery this morning. Within a few minutes we had the package open, the new innovati Robotinno humanoid robot powered up, and started streaming video of it terrorizing one of our dogs, Maxie.

Getting up to speed with Processing (Video)

Great afternoon at Tokyo Hackerspace getting educated on the basics of the Processing language. In a little over three hours Akiba covered everything necessary for us to get up and running, including writing some really cool recursive graphics programs. The next step will be to start interfacing with external inputs, sensors, LEDs, and servos.