Massive Online Open Courses (MOOC) are large scale online courses designed to attract interactive learning communities/forums. Courses are intended to be open in nature, whereby students can download course materials, video lectures, homework, etc. for free. In 2011, Stanford launched 3 MOOCs, the first of which was an “Introduction to Artificial Intelligence” with an enrollment …
DARPA’S ATLAS ROBOT UNVEILED
DARPA unveiled ATLAS, this past Monday, July 8. ATLAS, a six-foot-two 330 pound humanoid robot is one of the most advanced of its kind. ATLAS will serve as the hardware frame in the final stages of the DARPA Robotics Challenge(DRC). Nine teams will compete to teach the robot to perform a series of tasks during …
STOMPY: Project Hexapod
Glad to see that a Kickstarter campaign I backed last year is still in action: http://projecthexapod.com/blog/. Stompy is an open source hexapod robot that you can ride on. If all goes well, one of Stompy’s legs will be emblazoned with the welded characters “EZBUILDTEK” (a pledge reward!). If only I could have fit the “.com”. …
Makezine
Another site related to the ongoing “maker” movement. There is, however, a section dedicated to electronics, robotics, the Raspberry Pi and Arduino http://makezine.com/category/electronics/ Many can be found elsewhere on the web.