The Arduino is an amazing piece of technology that can be used to power all kinds of gadgets, often using nothing more than a battery and various components that don’t cost more than a few bucks.

Cosmo may look like a bunch of wires on wheels right now, but when it is finished, Cosmo will be every child's treasure and every parent's dream. Born of a stripped down remote control car and the ...

[Photo: Randy Sarafan] If you ever bought yourself or your kids a remote-control car, you’ll know how quickly people get bored of them, leaving the toy tossed to one side. However, if you were looking ...

Recently, writing in WIRED, ethicist Patrick Lin argued that building a programmable ethics button into future autonomous cars is not the right approach to dealing with the moral nuance of this new ...

Folks have been using the popular Arduino DIY computing platform to build robots and all sorts of other simple computing devices for a while. Arduino boards are inexpensive and relatively easy to use ...