This appeared on Engadget today and it truly peaked my interest. Lets face it, robotics, flying vehicles, SWARM technology, and autonomous design are cool in their own rights, put them all together and you have an uber-geek dream. I’m lovin it!

The MIT Team is using DraganFlyer helicopters, Gentoo Linux, Gumstix, and Vicon Motion Capture Systems [...]

Chris Davies of SlashGear.com found an excellent item to add to the top of you kids Holiday list, a microcontroller experiment kit from Thames & Kosmos.
Chris writes, “The Microcontroller kit from Thames & Kosmos (I can’t help but think of a British/Russian design collaboration when I read that name) is intended to give young people [...]

The holiday season is almost upon us, and you may be wondering what to get the hobby robot builder in your life, so here are some suggestions. The list is not in order of best to worst or anything, and there is no scientific reasoning for this list. This is just, in my opinion, the [...]

Today I was in New York City for some business meetings and I had some time during lunch to stop on my favorite street, Canal Street. I decided to check out the plastic supply houses for some CoroPlast corogated plastic sheets. I was well rewarded, and picked up a clear 4×8 sheet and [...]

I have always had a passion for bringing skills and ideas from one area to an other. For example, how my radio control hobbies cross over into my robot hobbies. Often I will speak with others in a particular hobby and they never look outside their hobby for inspiration or ideas.