Posts with keyword: robotics

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DIY Drones: Building Cheap UAVs

Tue Mar 4 17:51:00 2008

Chris Anderson(click to enlarge) One of the reasons I love ETech is talks like this one from Chris Anderson (of Wired) on building homebrew drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). He has a Web site that shows how to build the various kinds of drones he talked about. He's used Lego Mindstorms, cell phones, and microcontrollers on planes. The results are pretty astounding. Jordi with the blimp(click to enlarge) He wanted something you could do indoors, and hit on the idea of using blimps--which are inherently autonomous since they float. The blimp uses ultrasonic sensors to maintain altitude. When
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Harvesting Underwater Logs

Thu Feb 15 15:42:00 2007

I was fascinated by the Wired article on using submersible robots to harvest underwater forests (and there's a lot of wood underwater, as it turns out).
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