[Photo: Paul Rea] I must have some 300-CDs and DVDs full of archived music, anime, and movies lying around. I know I should probably move the data over to hard drives before they degrade. But it’s a ...

I'm a fan of Lego robotics. I've written over half a dozen books on the Lego Mindstorms NXT robotic system, and tinkering and prototyping with the NXT just never gets old. (And there's a NEW system ...

Using the Raspberry Pi to create robots is nothing new. But a new product called BrickPi seeks to make building Pi-based robots easier than ever with an add-on board and case that connect the Pi to ...

Like many great Internet discoveries, Phillipe Cantin’s journey started at Stack Exchange. He and his fellow LEGO fans have been working together in a beta forum about the toy brick, hoping the space ...

A new Arduino robot kit has been made available from the official Arduino online store in the form of EMoRo, which provides a basic robotic construction kit priced at €136.90. The EMoRo Arduino ...

As hilariously outrageous as Pacific Rim was, it was still an awesome concept. Giant robot battle suits, duking it out with the aliens. Well, it looks as if it wasn’t quite as far-fetched as we first ...

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