Hot Bots: How Arduino Teaches Kids the Science behind Modern Gizmos
Guest post by Michael R. Duffey There is a wide variety of creative projects which can help introduce children to the world of microcontrollers. A microcontroller is simply a small computer that can interact with the outside world. It can connect different types of “inputs” (such as sensing a motion, force, or temperature change) to [...]
Keep reading »Action Plan: Making Brain-Controlled Prosthetics That Can Open a Clothespin
January 23rd, 2013 |
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Last year a group of researchers at Brown and Harvard universities reported on a study called Braingate, in which a paralyzed woman picked up a container of coffee with a robotic arm and drank from it through a straw, an action directed by electrical signals from her motor cortex. Brain-controlled interfaces have advanced dramatically during [...]
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