The ABCs of Makerspace Projects
Quinn introduces the essential alphabet of making!
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Recapping the Week: November 15-21
Digilent has had a busy week! Check out what we’ve been up to.
Read MoreTurkey-Bots & Other Non-Traditional Ways to Celebrate Thankgiving
It’s a week until Thanksgiving, so Holly provides some cute ideas for the day.
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How to Come Up With a Awesome Project Idea
Miranda details some tips and tricks on how to hunt down that eureka moment!
Read MoreRecapping the Week: September 6-12
We have some big news! Don’t forget that Digilent is offering a weekly giveaway. It will be a product featured in a blog post and will go to the top commenter each week. Without further ado, let’s cover what went on this week.
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Recapping the Week: July 19-25
What do you have planned this weekend? We’re getting ready for NI Week, when half our team will be down in Austin for a time of educational fun. We’re also extremely excited about our Robotics Open Hardware Initiative!
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Jousting Robots – Wiring and LabVIEW Code
Long for the knights of old, but with the technology of new? Well trifle no longer, for in preparation for NI week, Josh and I decided to create jousting robots!
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Bad Mistakes and Good Feedback
I am a learner. I love robotics, but I’m still fumbling my way through it, learning as much as I can and doing my best to pass that knowledge on. That’s why it wasn’t really surprising to me when my Motor Controllers for Cheap Robots tutorial on Instructables started getting some comments that pointed out how badly designed my circuit was. What was surprising was how helpful that feedback proved to be!
Read MoreRecapping the Week: June 14-20
Are you all enjoying your summer? Things are picking up here, and so get ready for a bunch of new content from Digilent’s Blog! ASEE was a lot of fun, and we’ll have updates for you soon. In the meantime, enjoy your weekend and some blog posts.
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The Open Source Robot Initiative
We love robots so much, we want you guys to help us make more awesome robots. You can already check out some of the items tagged Digilent from Repables and Thingiverse, and there are a bunch of great robot components already. But we want your help to make more robot parts for everyone to use.
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Throwback Thursday: A History of Robots
How did we get from Archytas’ mechanical bird propelled by steam to today’s more complex robots (like our beloved Susan, the line-following pig)? Time, technology, and creativity provide a path.
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Turbo Strikes Back
In a contest between robot and human…the robot won (at least this round). Breaking one of Asimov’s Laws of Robotics, our normally friendly Turbo managed to get in a hit at one of our interns last week when she was troubleshooting.
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Happy Robot Week!
Guess what — it’s Robot Week! Throughout this week, we’ll have fun robot stories for you, as well as some tutorials about how to make your own robots.
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The Amazing Line-Following Robot Brothers
Here at Digilent, we believe that makers are learners! This means that we want people to take our stuff, and make something new from it. One great example is what this blog post is about– the line-following robots! One of our community members made an alternate, 3D-printable design for our base plate!
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3D-Printable Turbo!
As you all know, we got a new mascot for the Digilent MakerSpace. He is a happy, little barrel-shaped robot named Turbo. So far, Turbo has only been a 2-dimensional mascot.
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Introducing the ZYBOt!
Our applications and systems engineering manager, Sam B., has had an exciting project sitting on his desk for a long time that we finally get to see. Originally, his project was the Zedbot, a Linux-based robot that uses the Zedboard.
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Guest Tutorial for IntoRobotics!
Howdy! It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything new to my For Cheap Robots series, but that doesn’t mean I’ve been idle, far from it actually! I’ve recently been offered the chance to write a guest article for another robotics blog called IntoRobotics! I’d like to show all of you how to use the For Cheap Robots tutorial to make a simple, line-following robot of your very own.
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Arms and Motors and Sensors, Oh My!
I’m very proud to say that my For Cheap Robots project is still going strong! As some of you may recall, at the beginning of last month, I announced the beginning of my For Cheap Robots series here on the Digilent blog. Since then, I’ve added several more tutorials to the list and gotten a huge amount of positive feedback. I want to thank any and all of you who here who follow the Digilent Blog and decided to pop over to Instructables to check it out!
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Digilent Design Contest US 2014 Winner: Tele-Operated Bi-Manual Augmented System
I really enjoy my job at Digilent because we get to help more engineers in the world by giving students access to the latest technology. One of the coolest parts of my job is getting to go to design contests and getting to see students first-hand building innovative projects using our products!
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