As Randy points out in the video below, by giving the toy an Arduino, you’ve not only breathed a little bit of life into an old product, but you could tinker with this further–for instance ...

London-based roboticist Evangelos Georgiou wants to offer an open-source platform for helping Arduino hobbyists take their projects mobile, thanks to a remote controlled robot called the RK-1 that ...

The robot itself is relatively simple, with four geared DC motors, motor drivers wired to an Arduino Nano that interfaces with an Android Phone over serial.