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Digital Capabilities: a digital garden
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This digital garden by the University of Lincoln uses a Raspberry Pi, 20 jrks, and linear actuators to move panels, revealing the plants behind them, in response to tweets. More information is available on the project’s website. The project was awarded a gold medal at London’s Chelsea Flower Show.
Featured link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWdqyHa6mnI
Missing by The xx – Spatializing Sound with Sonos
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“Missing” features fifty robotic speakers that rotate to face the listeners. Each speaker uses an A4988 Stepper Motor Driver Carrier.
Featured link: http://www.creativeapplications.net/sound/missing-by-the-xx-spatializing-sound-with-sonos/
Wireless Fenrir
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Fenrir, a 12-foot-tall metal fire-breathing wolf sculpture by Sheet Metal Alchemist, now has a Wixel-based wireless controller.
Featured link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Z78yYVYq6mY
Pocket-sized USB charger adapter
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This Instructable shows how to make a professional-looking power adapter for charging USB devices using a Pololu Adjustable Step-Up/Step-Down Voltage Regulator S7V8A.
Featured link: http://www.instructables.com/id/Pocket-Sized-POLOLU-5V-Output-as-POWERTUBEs-acces/
Barobo Linkbot
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Check out this kickstarter: the Linkbot modular robot by Barobo uses Pololu motors.
Featured link: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/barobo/linkbot-create-with-robots
VertiBOT
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VertiBot is a neatly-constructed balancing robot. Pololu metal gearmotors, wheels, and a Qik dual serial motor controller were used for this project.
Featured link: http://madebyfrutos.wordpress.com/2013/05/02/vertibot/
Tiny Bot
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Tiny Bot, by Erik Kringen, is an autonomous obstacle-avoiding robot tank that uses a Pololu track set.
Featured link: http://www.mycontraption.com/introducing-tiny-bot/
PiBBOT
This balancing robot by Mark Williams is controlled by a Raspberry Pi. The project web page explains the balance control algorithm. PiBBOT uses a Pololu MinIMU-9 v2, metal gearmotors with encoders, and Pololu wheels.
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Featured link: http://marks-space.com/2013/04/18/success-with-a-balancing-robot-using-a-raspberry-pi/
Rice University's r-one research robot
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This r-one research robot was designed to be low cost, so that researchers in the Multi-Robot Systems Lab at Rice University could make a swarm of robots. It uses our brackets, wheels and ball casters, and motors.
Featured link: http://mrsl.rice.edu/projects/r-one