A few weeks ago I wrote about the Crazyflie, an all in one Quadcopter designed on a single printed circuit board(PCB). This is a very versatile platform that is open for modifications and improvements. The easiest upgrade to start with will be to upgrade the battery pack. The stock battery is a 170mAh with C rating of 25-50. Depending … Read More →
Morphex III Becomes Boca Bearing Company’s Innovation Contest Winner.
We are quickly approaching the point where people will be upgrading their limb’s, instead of just replacing missing/damaged limbs. The video’s below shows the most advanced prosthetic arms on the market. Their functionality has vastly improved over the last few years and we don’t see it slowing down. Future prosthetic limbs will be controlled directly by your mind … Read More →
Following up from our earlier post about Quentin Harley’s SCARA 3d Printer , we finally have some footage of it actually printing. The design is totally different from the normal Cartesian based printers and might just be the next big thing… Quentin also added a post on how to Calibrate the Morgan Reprap – SCARA 3d Printer. A copy of … Read More →
Quentin Harley from South-Africa has been working on a SCARA based 3d printer for quite some time. Lately he has made huge progress on the project and the video below shows the printer in action. For more details on his printer have a look at his blog : http://reprap.harleystudio.co.za/ He has also named it the Morgan … Read More →
Elon Musk and his team of the best engineers in the world is changing the way people think. They are introducing more than just a magnificent car, they are changing the way manufacturing is being done today. Majority of the factory is automated and it’s bringing manufacturing back to America. By using hundreds of multifunctional KUKA robots they … Read More →
Crazyflie is a building platform for makers that are interested in a Quad-copter that they can hack and add special features to. Its a palm size Quad-copter that can be assembled in very little time. It is very small, agile and for less than $200 its amazing value. The video below demonstrates its capabilities… For more details have a look at … Read More →
I find it pretty amazing to see families work as a team. A great example of this is the Beatty family. They have so many great projects behind them that I really need to congratulate them on their achievements… 😉 Here are a few of the projects that caught my eye: Creepy Crawler Robot Hexapod with amazing control over each … Read More →
Kiva systems has created a warehouse system that fetches racks and even laser points the items that needs to be picked. Very simple but effective system that increases warehouse productivity 200-300%.
A series of videos about Delta/Parallel robots including: History of Delta robots. High speed Delta robots.(Well over 30G’s of acceleration) Different Delta robot designs with things like extendable arms,work with cables and rack & pinion. High precision industrial Delta robots Five-bar parallel robot generating acceleration of up to 25G’s. SCARA robot going crazy with some steel ball’s. Delta 3D Printer (Rostock) Calibrating. Giant … Read More →
