RobotGrrl Erin Kennedy has pushed back another barrier to easy Robotics. This talented teen is using an iPad to control her Arduino powered Robot RoboBrrd‘s servos. RobotGrrl created an iPad app which will allow her to feed her Feather covered robotic bird using the iPad tablet’s touch screen. Dragging virtual fruit to RoboBrrds beak on […]
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This is a continuation of an interview Makermasters.com did with RobotGrrl, a teen Robot maker. BILL: – What caught my attention from your projects was the RoboBrrd. Could you tell me a little bit about RoboBrrd. ROBOTGRRL: Sure, so one night, Adafruit Industries contacted me after they read my blog, and they said, “Hey, can […]
Read the rest of this entry »Meet Robotgrrl – Making Robots from Popsicle sticks and Arduino.
One of the nice things about blogging is that it encourages you to read other folks blogs to see what they are up to. I recently stumbled across a really interesting blog by Robotgrrl, a 19 year old, young lady who is making Robots out of popsicle sticks, pencils, Arduino and basically anything she can […]
Read the rest of this entry »Minibloq is coming to Ipad – Minibloq4iPad.
Minibloq the open source Graphical Development Environment for Arduino is coming to Ipad. Minibloq creator Julian da Silva is working in conjunction with Andreas Schaefer to port Minibloq to the Ipad. The project named Minibloq4iPad is already underway. The iOS version will feature a
Read the rest of this entry »Minibloq V0.7 Alpha Test Drive – How I programmed an Arduino without writing code.
I took my Arduino for a ride using the new open source Minibloq Graphical Development Interface. As I reported earlier Julian da Silva released the Alpha version of the Minibloq program to his backers on Kickstarter. I got my copy and within minutes I had programmed my Arduino Uno to perform a variety of tasks. […]
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