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A Robot on Every Desk
Last week, I led a robot workshop in New York City. A huge thank you to Sauce Labs for sponsoring and Crowdtap for hosting the event at their office. Thank you specifically to Ashley Wilson at Sauce Labs and Arjun Anand at Crowdtap for … Continue reading
Printing Bitbeams
It’s been a busy few months in Bitbeam land. For lots of reasons, I’m now the proud owner of a Lulzbot AO-101 3D Printer. I ordered it on Tuesday, received it today, and I’m already printing beams. Here’s a quick peak at the results! I used the “B… Continue reading
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Smoke Tests for Bitbeambot
Some tests to verify that bitbeambot is working well — mechanically, electronically, and software-ly. Continue reading
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Bitbeambot – The Complete Kit
I’m finally getting around to cleaning up and documenting the Bitbeambot. I just posted detailed assembly instructions to Flickr. Key technical improvements:* Upgraded to brand new Hitec HS-311 standard servos* Upgraded the servo mount point – it … Continue reading
Open Hardware Summit: Bitbeam Talk Proposal
I just barely got the talk proposal in on time for the Open Hardware Summit coming up in September. Here’s an excerpt from what I submitted. Wish me luck! What you intend to talk about: Bitbeam is a LEGO Technic-compatible building technology. Bit… Continue reading
Arduino mounting plate
A common problem when playing with Arduino is deciding how to secure the circuit board to the rest of your project. Use this laser cuttable mounting plate to attach an Arduino to your LEGO Technic or Bitbeam creations. You can check out the OpenSC… Continue reading
Bitbeam Robots Invade PyCon!
Here’s the video of the talk I gave at PyCon 2012 about my Angry Birds playing robot. Sorry for all the “ums”. I’m really going to try to remove those from my vocabulary. Here’s a some good advice on how to remove “ums” from your speech. Continue reading
Who Has Two Thumbs and Made O’Reilly’s Radar?
Okay, that tweet will probably be on my Top 10 Awesome Moments of 2011 list. But let’s back up for a second. How’d we get here? On October 2nd, I presented my Angry Birds playing robot at the Jenkins User Conference in San Francisco. You can watch… Continue reading
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bitPad – Open Source iPad Stand
bitPad is an inexpensive and easy to build iPad stand made with Bitbeam. Although it’s very simple, it shows you some of the fun things you can do with Bitbeam. Here are the parts you need: 3 27U Bitbeam beams 2 13U Bitbeam beams 6 1-inch long 10-… Continue reading
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Angry Bots
My robot plays Angry Birds. Does yours? I created this robot for my “Extreme Testing with Selenium and Jenkins” talk at the Jenkins User Conference, on October 2, 2011. Oh, and it looks like Bitbeambot is now #1 on the Robots That Play Angry Birds… Continue reading
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