Author Archives: Dino

There’s a long standing tradition of rustic sign and furniture making in the Adirondacks. I grew up here and saw many examples of this in my youth. There’s an intersection near my old house called Crystal Dale Corners and when … Continue reading →

The iRobot Roomba is a great robotic device for hardware hackers and robot builders. They can be found on Ebay for as little as $20 with and without batteries. The battery pack seems to be the main reason they get … Continue reading →

They can speak to each other! Well, random phrases anyway but it’s interesting to see what pops up next as they babble to each other. This is part four of this project, which will remain ongoing and revisited from time … Continue reading →

It’s finally published! Make Magazine Vol.31 has my Automatic Ball Launcher on the cover and a full build article inside! I wrote the article around the first of the year and after much editing and emailing we put together an … Continue reading →

It can talk! After a long session at the workbench this past Sunday, I managed to build the mechanism and the circuit to make my robot box talk with Emic 2 supplying the speech! I used a random function in … Continue reading →