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High School Students Use Mobot at STEM Day
High School students use the Mobot as part of a robotics competition at STEM Day in UC Davis. See more photos Every teacher struggles with coming up with lesson plans that emulate real world scenarios...
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How to Make a Robot – 3 Key Ingredients
Robot kits come in all different shapes and sizes; some are remote controlled, others are controlled by a computer program. But what really goes into making a robot? NASCAR pit crews use pneumatic...
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Reinventing the Wheel
A tale of adventure and self-discovery at Barobo Inc. By Brian Broderick “Brian, I need you to design a new wheel for the Mobot.” Graham, founder and head engineer of Barobo, went on to explain that...
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A journey of a thousand miles…
By Alexander FundThe design of the foot began with the desire to improve upon the walking motion that a 3 Mobot configuration with a 4×4 snap connector could do. In this new configuration, the feet...
View ArticleEducation Super Collider (Un) Conference 2012 @Hacker Lab 11/30
Images from the first-ever Education Super Collider (Un) Conference. Credit for the photos goes to Ash Roughani.
View ArticleASME: Kits for Kids Demystify Robotics
What do R2-D2 from Star Wars, Adam from Real Steel, Bumblebee from Transformers, and Wall-E from the popular Pixar film have in common?...
View ArticleIncubator allows local business to take root
An entrepreneur may have all the qualities required to run a successful business, but it could all be for naught if he or she lacks a fleshed-out business model, convincing sales pitch or a network of...
View ArticleEducation in The 21st Century
“…I’m announcing a new challenge to redesign America’s high schools so they better equip graduates for the demands of a high-tech economy… We’ll reward schools that develop new partnerships with...
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We’ve been featured on Engadget’s Insert Coin
Everybody loves robots, but the initial ardor for building one can quickly be snuffed out by the complex reality of actually programming it to do anything. That’s where Linkbot comes in … Read More
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“Pop the Trunk, I’m Running Across the Freeway to Maker Faire!”
Thank you so much to all our early backers for making the launch of Linkbot on Kickstarter such a success! The last few days have been a whirlwind, so I’m dedicating the next hour to writing our first...
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Linkbot + SmartThings = Awesomeness!
We recently got the SmartThings Maker Kit and have had a great time playing with the functionality when paired with the Linkbot. Robots bridge the gulf between the digital world and physical world, and...
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Meet Linkbot
Hello everyone! AppleSauce here. I’ve recently joined Barobo to help them with marketing strategy. As part the process of getting to know the company, I’ve been given a small robot called the Linkbot...
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Creating a Buzz
I’m excited to say that I found the time to complete my first chapter of Introductory Python on sound! When I first started, I was introduced to a piano roll, an interface where I can click on each...
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Barobo Goes to the Capital Air Show
The whole Barobo team went to the Capital Air Show a couple weekends ago. I personally had a very small idea of what I would be doing. I thought I would be talking to aviation enthusiasts and military...
View ArticleBumpConnect is coming back!!
Hey all, David here. As many of you know, all of us here at Barobo have been working hard on improving the stability and user-experience of Linkbot Labs. We started the process almost two years ago...
View ArticleLinkbot Labs 1.0.8 Released for Raspberry Pi 2
We are pleased to announce that Linkbot Labs and the Python curriculum now run on the Raspberry Pi 2. In order to install the software, you will have to be running Raspbian Jessie, released in...
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