Robots have been there to delight, amuse, entertain, scare, and make us think for almost as long as humans have sat in front of a screen to gain entertainment from moving pictures. One of cinema’s first true ambitious masterpieces — Fritz Lang’s Metropolis from 1927 &…
Well, for many years I've always wanted to build a 2 legged walking robot. I have already built 3 R2-D2s, a functional lifesize Wall*E and a few other smaller robots droids. But as of 18 months ago I had this crazy idea to build a lifesize K2SO from Rogue One. These video's show my progr…
What do you do with two wheelchair motors, a welder, and a desire to learn robotics? You build a freakin’ Tie Fighter. At least, that's what Allan Carver does. Allan is one of our loyal customers and is sharing with us some details about his latest project that went viral a couple of weeks ago.
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For many of us, R2D2 was one of the first "real" robots we wanted to "get to know" as a robot friend (sorry C3P0, you were just too opinionated). Tony Dyson was the master builder of the R2D2 droid, and he passed away on March 4, 2016 at the young age of 68.
