Arduino is now offering a fully-assembled robot, designed as a base platform for electronics tinkerers' DIY robotics projects. Its hardware and software are open-source, and designed to be hacked.

ArcBotics' stretch goals for Sparki of $100,000, $200,000, and $300,000 would allow it to build an Android app to control Sparki via Bluetooth, a wireless data radio for communicating with other ...

It comes standard with a joystick control protocol and 8 customizable command buttons. On the robot end of things you’re looking at a fairly basic setup consisting of an Arduino, a WiFi module ...

London-based roboticist Evangelos Georgiou wants to offer an open-source platform for helping Arduino hobbyists take their projects mobile, thanks to a remote controlled robot called the RK-1 that ...

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The new Arduino Robot Kit was unveiled at the Maker Faire, ... and the Control Board reads sensors and decides how to operate, ... modify its software and even add your own hardware on top of it.

In addition to the hardware, the software plays a critical role in the robot’s performance. The Arduino code must read the sensor data, compute the control signals, and drive the motors in real ...

Since the robot was powered by an Arduino, a bit of programming was involved. Ben describes the process thusly: To climb up a tree, the robot goes through a simple series of motions.

The Arduino is a cheap, fun way to get into building your own electronics. It can also be daunting to get started. Here, we’ll show you how to get a start-to-finish Arduino primer with a killer ...