An 18-DOF hexapod robot was completley designed and developed at the University of Florence by Andrea Foschi in 2005. It was later tamed by Marco Natalini and Alessandro Mambelli using Evidence Srl's FLEX Light board and ERIKA kernel.

FLEX is born as a development board where to easily develop and test real-time applications for the Microchip microcontrollers. Scilab/Scicos is a code generator for the FLEX Board. Let's see how to control a DC Motor Servo using FLEX

Designer Johan Brengesjo has come up with an interesting alternative to the modern alarm clock. His high-tech design incorporates a rubber ring worn on a finger that vibrates to arouse you from sleep.

RECYCLING parts of discarded computers is slow and expensive, so many used PCs in the US are simply dumped in landfills, or shipped to the developing world for disposal.

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey has entered a new phase, probing to greater distances to study the universe's expansion history. It will look into the Big Bang and nature of Dark Energy.

Worst Parents of the Year Award Goes To...

ELECTION 2012 Ballot tracking devices and massive interactive databases Okay, the end of this well-done video (neural transmission) takes it out of the realm of reality, but the first four minutes illustrate mechanisms that are already coming into place:

Instruction in the internet, especially in trivial skills, is one of the Web's great giveaways.

As a new school year begins, the time may have come to reconsider how large a role technology can play in changing education.

As image-editing software grows in sophistication and ubiquity, alterations go far beyond removing red-eye and whitening teeth.