Fuzzbot, by 12-year-old maker Quin of Qtechknow, helps clean the floors by dragging a dust cloth around while avoiding obstacles. The robot uses the Pololu Zumo Robot Kit for Arduino.

Related post: Qtechknow wins Educator’s Choice award at Maker Faire

Featured link: http://blog.makezine.com/2013/04/12/introducing-the-fuzzbot/

Emma, a 2nd grader, put together this creative tri-fold poster of Vermont. She uses the Pololu Step-Down Voltage Regulator and a Pololu Pushbutton Power Switch SV.

Featured link: http://www.swblabs.com/?p=871

We expect to release a simple carrier for ST’s new LPS331AP pressure sensor this week. While testing and writing example programs for the sensor, one of our engineers, Kevin, came up with a nice demonstration that calculates and displays the altitude on our Orangutan SVP robot controller. It was a beautiful spring day with great flying weather, so Paul and I took Kevin’s digital altimeter on a flight to Lake Havasu City, Arizona, to see how it compared to the altimeter in a plane. Continued…

I posted toward the end of last year about some new equipment we were adding to our manufacturing operations and said the best stuff was still coming. I and several others at Pololu have since had some more personal deliveries of the crying-all-night sort, which delayed my promised update. I still do not have the performance information I had hoped to have by now, but let’s at least look at what we got: Continued…

This fully-autonomous robot can detect and avoid objects, track moving objects, detect table edges, and detect level lights. The robot uses Sharp optical range finders and Pololu wheels.

Featured link: http://forum.pololu.com/viewtopic.php?p=31673#p31673

Congratulations to Team BumbleBee on winning 2nd place in the 2013 Singapore AUV competition! Their autonomous underwater vehicle uses a High-Power Motor Controller 18v15.

Featured link: http://bbauv.com/bumblebee-placed-2nd-in-singapore-autonomous-underwater-vehicle-2013/

This robot uses our Zumo robot kit, 75:1 micro metal gearmotors, and a Zumo reflectance sensor array. Instead of an Arduino it uses a Freescale FRDM-KL25Z as the microcontroller board. Sample code is available for line following and maze solving.

Featured link: http://forum.pololu.com/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=6657

This board by Martin Sant makes connecting servos to the Wixel easier.

Featured link: http://martinsant.net/?page_id=962

We recently heard that the Solarbotics RM2 is being used as a replacement motor for upgrading flywheel NERF blasters. In this discussion on the NerfHaven Forums, forum member 0reo says:

IMHO, these are the best motors for any flywheel nerf gun that runs on 4 AAs.

Featured link: http://nerfhaven.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=23611

Related products

	Solarbotics RM2 (high-power motor for GM2/3/8/9)
	Brushed DC Motor: 130-Size, 3V, 20kRPM, 4A Stall

This demo project for the Pinoccio wireless microcontroller combines a Pololu 3pi with a Pinoccio to create a rover that can be driven remotely over the internet.

Featured link: http://pinocc.io/examples/webrover/