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Portable power pack using LM1086 for mobile phones

Posted: 27 Jul 2013 11:25 AM PDT

This project is backup energy when need portable mobile phone that no electrical outlet. we use LM1086 is main on a low dropout voltage, making it has high-efficiency. When we need to take the mobile phone to location-based applications. No electrical outlet to plug in to recharge the battery. and In event that use often [...]

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Why the Internet Needs Cognitive Protocols

Posted: 26 Jul 2013 12:45 PM PDT

Networks will break down without new biologically inspired routing

This Week in Cybercrime: Online Bank Heists Just the Latest in a Long String

Posted: 25 Jul 2013 09:40 PM PDT

Banks and law enforcement seem helpless to stop it

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Video Friday: Insectobots on the Run, Drones Dodge Fireworks, and Robots Dance with Sheets
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The Future of Pharmaceuticals Could Be Electronic Implants
Tech Trajectories: Four More Moore’s Laws
Tooth Sensor Watches for Bad Oral Habits
Lockheed Martin Pioneers Ocean Energy in China
Tracking the Quantified Self
The Market for Nanomaterial Solutions for ITO Replacement Gets Crowded

Video Friday: Insectobots on the Run, Drones Dodge Fireworks, and Robots Dance with Sheets

Posted: 26 Jul 2013 08:01 AM PDT

Yet another Friday has arrived. A Friday full of robot videos

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Posted: 26 Jul 2013 07:21 AM PDT

Making a robot that can draw blood faster and more safely than a human can

The Future of Pharmaceuticals Could Be Electronic Implants

Posted: 26 Jul 2013 05:07 AM PDT

British pharmaceuticals firm betting that "electroceuticals" will treat complex diseases better

Tech Trajectories: Four More Moore’s Laws

Posted: 26 Jul 2013 05:03 AM PDT

Semiconductor technologies aren't the only ones that have gotten exponentially better

Tooth Sensor Watches for Bad Oral Habits

Posted: 25 Jul 2013 02:40 PM PDT

A tooth sensor can detect chewing, smoking, coughing and other mouth motions

Lockheed Martin Pioneers Ocean Energy in China

Posted: 25 Jul 2013 01:27 PM PDT

A 10-megawatt ocean thermal energy conversion plant is under way

Tracking the Quantified Self

Posted: 25 Jul 2013 12:59 PM PDT

We are data-generating and language-generating machines

The Market for Nanomaterial Solutions for ITO Replacement Gets Crowded

Posted: 25 Jul 2013 12:39 PM PDT

From silver nanowires to silver nanoparticles and most recently graphene, nanomaterials are poised to replace ITO in displays

Trossen Robotics Blog

New Edge Kits and an Octopod

Posted: 25 Jul 2013 06:00 AM PDT

Interbotix Labs is proud to announce our first entry into our line of Edge Kits!

Edge Kits are robotics kits that we are releasing from our R&D labs early. In an effort to make more kits available to the community and to accelerate the innovation cycle we have decided to start releasing “Edge Kits” for advanced builders. The name comes from the term “cutting edge” to denote that these kits are on the front edge of development. The kits are intended as hardware kits and may or may not come with certain levels of code that we and the community is working on, though code will often be available in unsupported beta formats which people are sharing and banging away on to improve.

We made the choice to release kits in this format due to the demand we have seen over the years from the community wanting to get their hands on advanced kits faster than the normal cycle. We as roboticists are notoriously impatient people and when we want to build, we want to build now. So the Edge Kit was born. The kits do NOT come with the same level of documentation, code, and/or assembly instructions that our fully support Interbotix Kits do. As a result, these kits are best suited for individuals with previous experience with our kits or other similar applications.

Our first Edge Kit is the Interbotix Octopod. As the name suggests, the kit is an eight legged crawler. Community member KevinO has already gotten his kit up and running with some seriously advanced features and sensing capabilities. His robot Charlotte started life as a PhantomX Hexapod running an Arbotix and from there he modified the legs several times to his liking (a great feature of the modular AX-12 bracket system). Soon a Raspberry Pi and Kinect 3d Camera sensor were added, and he ported over the Phoenix-Phoenix code (another community project for our crawlers lead by KurtE) to run natively on the Raspberry Pi. As he experimented with face tracking, obstacle avoidance and gesture tracking, KevinO expressed a desire to make Charlotte a bit closer to a real spider by adding an additional pair of legs and bringing the total up to 8. And thus, the Octopod project was born.

This is a perfect example of how the synergy of small companies and online communities are ever increasing the speed of innovation in technology. A big thanks goes out to Kevin for his VERY impressive project, we can’t wait to see where he takes it next! Check out his video of Charlotte taking some of her early steps:

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Mini Emergency Lighting

Posted: 25 Jul 2013 09:47 AM PDT

This mini emergency lighting are used to automatically give lighting when ac line power go out. Which they consist of one lamps, a battery, and a low voltage sensor. This projects design take advantaged of simple circuit techniques and cheap. Special feature: 1. Small-sized : output with 2.4V 5W lamp and 3V battery. 2. No [...]

DC switching power supplies

Posted: 25 Jul 2013 09:11 AM PDT

These are DC switching power supplies. To as ideas on build projects or tools. Because they have small size and cheaper than linear power supply. Our Website, begin there are slowly many circuits, until friends say that difficult to see circuits or projects as you want. Particular DC switching power supply has very useful are [...]

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RobotShop launches Public Library for FlowBotics Studio

RobotShop is glad to announce the launch of its new Public Library for FlowBotics Studio. The Public Library is a wiki that allows FlowBotics Developers to upload and share their projects with other developers.

Made a cool project for your robot? Great, upload it! Designed a new FlowStone component that will make building new projects easier? Awesome, upload that too!

The Public Library can be used to share completed projects or to simply share some project components that are made to be reused in other projects. For example, we have already made a project called MathLib which provides components to do some simple math tasks. Sure, the component for bounds checking can be easily made by combining an existing Min component with a Max component, but who wants to do that every time? Once you have downloaded MathLib, you can take the bounds component and add it to your FlowBotics toolbox.

And since the FlowBotics Projects are inherently open source, you can take any of the projects from the Public Library and modify it to fit your own application!

If you have built a great project that you would like to sell, we can add it to our Robot App Store. See Selling a Project for more information.

We are glad to be able to provide a environment where roboticists can share projects and build an online community allowing them to contribute back as much as they have been helped themselves.

About FlowBotics Studio

FlowBotics Studio is a new development platform for robotics software: it boasts the powerful FlowStone graphical programming language, and includes many demo robotics projects to get you started. It can be used to control just about any robotics platform, data acquisition board, motor controller, servo board, sound card, or webcam.

For more information, see the FlowBotics website.

About the FlowBotics Studio Public Library

The FlowBotics Studio Public Library is wiki that allows our community of users to upload their projects and components for sharing with the rest of the community.

For more information, see the Public Library.