Manga Guide to SMD

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For those that have always felt a bit treppidatious when approaching SMD, you can relax. Here's a simple guide to walk you through your first shaky steps into surface mount devices. Distributed freely under the creative common license, the Manga Guide to SMD is an 18 page comic that has a goal of making SMD producers out of all of us. There's a good visual explanation of what SMT is and why we use … [Read more...]

Working Tachikoma brings the manga to life

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This Lego Tachikoma drives and walks just like in the TV program. You simply must take a peek at the video after the break. We've watched it several times and don't think there's any editing magic going on. But the movements are so intriguing part of us thinks there's something fishy about it. Each leg has a wheel that is connected to a motor via chain drive. But the little guy isn't … [Read more...]

Robots from dolls

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Here at Hackaday, we may be somewhat divided in our opinions of Anime and Manga. We were all pretty impressed by this robot build(translated) though. We're not totally clear on who actually did this build, but we can see a few pictures and a video on the site. The original doll looks to be roughly 3 or 4 inches tall, judging by the Eeepc keyboard that it is standing on. We counted 7 servos stuffed … [Read more...]