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Video Friday: Humanoid Soccer

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His four-legged and wheeled robot is able to change shape within seconds, overcome steps and navigate between indoor and outdoor environments. Be the tiny DIY robot cat you’ve always wanted to be! Paper ] Building tiny giant robots requires lots of little fixtures, and I’m here for it. Swiss-Mile ] Thanks, Marko!

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iRobot Launches Create 3, with ROS 2 Built In

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It’s a little scary to recall that when iRobot last released an update to the Create DIY/educational robot platform, the calendar read 2014 (!). You can expect the Create 3 to take almost whatever you can throw at it—or more importantly, almost whatever can be thrown at it in an educational environment. I think there are two reasons.

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The First Digital Camera Was The Size of a Toaster

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“And cameras are present in almost every type of environment, including in our own homes.” The company assigned the job to Sasson in 1974, when he joined Kodak as an electronics engineer working in the apparatus division’s research lab. That didn’t deter Sasson, who continued to build more cameras for Kodak.

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How I turned a shipping container into a solar off-grid charging station with A/C

Baua Electric

These engineering wonders are great for many uses outside of merely transferring goods around the world, with one of the most common secondary uses being watertight storage units. Well, not really cheated, but I just went with a retail solar generator system instead of DIYing that part myself from à la carte components.

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Car Companies Standardize Plug for Electric Vehicles : Gas 2.0

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

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Happy IEEE Day!

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IEEE Day celebrates the first time in history when engineers worldwide and IEEE members gathered to share their technical ideas in 1884. On this day, we IEEE Members acknowledge and celebrate the wonderful advancements in engineering and look forward to sharing more ideas for the betterment of humanity. Happy IEEE Day! Happy IEEE Day!

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MIT Battery Breakthrough Could Revolutionize Electric Cars : Gas 2.0

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

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