Paul Rea builds an Arduino and Lego-based robot to pick up his piles of old burned CDs and DVDs, rip them, and throw them away.

Arduino is now offering a fully-assembled robot, designed as a base platform for electronics tinkerers' DIY robotics projects. Its hardware and software are open-source, and designed to be hacked.

Today's aspiring robot inventors have an advantage over droid-loving Anakin Skywalker and it comes in the form of the Ultimate DIY Arduino Robotics Bundle. Over the course of 22 hours of expert ...

Easy to use The Arduino micro controller can be easily removed from the robot, and it is placed on the prototyping board so that you can program to your heart's content.

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Avoid stepping on these tiny Arduino-compatible boards. MCookies are pricier than the LEGOs they snap into, and will probably cut your feet just as badly.

The small setup uses an old iPad mounted on top of Technics wheels. The machine is powered by an Arduino board and connects to a Windows laptop. The result is that throughout the night the machine ...

The Inebriator is a homemade robot bartender powered by an Arduino, and it makes perfect cocktails every time.

DIY micro-robotics is having a moment. The latest project to take the crowdfunding route to build out a platform for playing around with robotics is called BrickPi. As its name suggests, BrickPi ...

GeekDad's very own John Baicthal has joined Matthew Beckler and Adam Wolf (co-founders of Wayne and Layne) to release Make: Lego and Arduino Projects. Just like the other Make: books, it's a high ...