Any plans for Christmas Eve? Maybe to sit around the family fireplace (or the plasma screen version of it…), singing Christmas carols? Ok, why not… but what if a Los Angeles-based family band had something else in mind for you, not one bit similar, 8-bit actually! This band, “Mista Cookie Jar & ...

My experience with robotics involved some brief hands-on in college and a large amount of hands-on with the LEGO Mindstorms robotics kit. It was the Mindstorms NXT kit that reignited my interest in robotics five years ago and got me wanting to learn more. I’ve since built a handful of ...

What do you get when you combine four Lego Mindstorms NXTs, a Samsung Galaxy SII, a Rubik’s Cube, and two creative minds? You get a robot that can solve the Rubik’s Cube faster than a human.

The GRV "Crusher" comes equipped with headlights! Yay! Traffic around Da-da's town is some of the worst in the world, mostly because all the parents have fallen asleep at the wheel, exhausted from ferrying small beings here and there and there and here, multiple parental unconsciousness episodes snarling traffic for miles. ...

I’m a sucker for all things Lego, and I came across a couple of interesting items recently that will be of interest to all you other Lego fans out there. First up is a fantastic dragon sculpture that breathes actual fire! This dragon is the handiwork of Flickr user akama1_lego, and many ...

I’m a sucker for all things Lego, and I came across a couple of interesting items recently that will be of interest to all you other Lego fans out there. First up is a fantastic dragon sculpture that breathes actual fire! This dragon is the handiwork of Flickr user akama1_lego, and many ...

If you’ve ever played one of PopCap’s Bejeweled games, you’re sure to appreciate the “bot” created by YouTube user hypnotizd: The bot in question is a C# based application that uses screen-scraping to determine the color of the jewels in the game, and then generates mouse-click events to play the game. ...

Joey Daoud, a documentary filmmaker, takes a close look at the violent side of high school robotics. His crew follows three high school robotics teams as they compete in the metal bending world of combat robotics. Like myself, Joey recognizes that the US is falling behind on the engineering race. Bots ...

So it appears that the automated robots that we are familiar with operating within factory or assembly line settings are breaking into the hotel business. Yotel, what one can only assume is a delightfully upscale hotel in New York City, has employed a very unique bell boy. They are ...

So it appears that the automated robots that we are familiar with operating within factory or assembly line settings are breaking into the hotel business. Yotel, what one can only assume is a delightfully upscale hotel in New York City, has employed a very unique bell boy. They are ...