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Countdown to Maker Faire

May

2013

We’re setting up at Maker Faire and hope you’ll all come see Robot Garden @ iGate in Booth #2675 in Expo Hall. We might not be able to report back cause we’re giving presentations and having a booth and trying to look around ourselves but this is an event full of fantastic things. Not only are ...

Busy making for Maker Faire

May

2013

My family and I have all been hanging out at Robot Garden the last few evenings quite enjoyably making stuff for Maker Faire. From, wood fabric, steel circuits and printed ABS. Some time after Maker Faire, we’ll post some documentation on the projects we’ve build.

OmNom Project at Make Showcase

May

2013

OmNom Project and Robot Garden are showcasing at Make Hardware Innovation Showcase in San Mateo. OmNom is a very early prototype 3d filament recycler/creator built by Michael Howland of EMH Studios and is our first ‘Robot Garden maker project’. OmNom may be the first functional 3d plastics recycler and was spinning out some of its ...

Updates on Wood Shop SBU and Maker Faire

May

2013

Greetings enthusiasts, A very busy time at Robot Garden over the last two months. We’ve opened our wood (and plastic) shop and are currently going through iterations of our wood shop SBU. For those of you who have taken the course, excellent. However, we’ve identified some gaps and will be introducing a hands on portion ...

An Inspiring Inventor Cori Lathan

May

2013

Great piece on NPR today about inventor and engineer, Cori Lathan. Cori’s projects range from playful robots for children with cerebral palsy, to feedback gloves and virtual training for surgeons, to neurological feedback for both military and anybody.

Common Wealth Club of California panel on Women and Under-represented Students of Color in STEM Education

May

2013

Robot Garden’s Maynard Holiday will be on a panel at the Commonwealth Club of California on Women and Under-represented Students of Color in STEM Education this Thursday. The talk will be available online at a later date. Edit: The audio archive of the panel is now online.

Girls making Mobot Garden

May

2013

Some of our young makers had fun making a Mobot Garden with our Mobots from Barobo. Mobots are all 3d printed – aside from the electronics – and you can create your own extra bits. They’re a great educational resource and we’re looking forward to many more make sessions with them!

Oliver Rice – Turtlebots

May

2013

This is a slightly late introduction to Oliver Rice, our newest ‘roboticist in residence’. Most of you have met Oliver on the weekends as he’s been working away on various robot platforms. Oliver is an Australian roboticist who is looking for work in the US and wanted to spend his spare time building robots. Scratch ...

Alex Reben – Tribeca triumph

May

2013

Alex Reben, our first ‘roboticist-at-large’ has created a troupe of film making robots for the Tribeca Film Festival in New York. Based on Alex’s ‘Boxie’ robot for his MIT master’s thesis, the ‘Robots in Residence’ are interviewing Tribeca attendees. Each droid carries a digital camera, a speaker that asks a series of pre-programmed questions to ...

Maker Faire Discussion – Saturday Open Access – May 4th

May

2013

Greetings enthusiast! We have some exciting events coming up. The big one, the Maker Faire, will be taking place May 17, 18, and 19th. We hope you will participate, showcasing your projects and / or ideas. This open access I would like to dedicate to brain storming project work. IF you have ideas or projects ...