Robot building, drone hacking, hardware workshops – RobotsConf is a place where hardware and software collide and everything weird, cool, and wonderful about the Maker movement comes to life. Naturally, we had to be there. We travelled to see what people were building at one of the country’s largest robo-gatherings.
We saw a wide range of projects covering almost anything you can imagine. 3D printing models from Freeform. A touchlessly controlled Sphero robot. Laser-printing baseball bats. The 12-year-old creator of Sylvia’s Super-Awesome Maker Show controlling a quadrotor with the Leap Motion Controller. Giant clownfish balloons. Afterwards, we saw several Leap Motion projects directly inspired by the event, including Programmarchy’s modular robotic cubelets and albus522′s Sumo Bot. We’ve included some of our favorite highlights below.
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Leap Motion at Robots Conf 2013
Leap Motion attended the inaugural Robots Conf located near Jacksonville, Florida. Here are a few of the best posts from the show.
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RobotsConf Build Area Timelapse – Friday – Side View: http://youtu.be/BPyTSZXOj1A via #robotsconf
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Swag box: leap motion, spark core, arduino uno, and more! #robotsconf
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Leap motion also included in the welcome kit 🙂 #robotsconf
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Cool! A Spark Core and Leap Motion in the #robotsconf swag! T-shirts are nice too.
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@LeapMotionDev There’s a ROBOTS CONFERENCE?!? :O #nowalsojealous
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Say hello to @neptunius0 Alan Davis of @LeapMotionDev our workshop guide for the wide world of Interaction Interfaces http://robotsconf.com/pages/speakers.html#davis …
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Meetings of the minds, @neptunius0 and the #robotsconf talking robot. Guest appearance from awesome @MakerSylvia pic.twitter.com/tDIcIGJePb -
Nice shout out to us during the @LeapMotionDev #robotsconf talk thanks!
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Swimming in the air with a @LeapMotion Controller #robotsconf @LeapMotionDev pic.twitter.com/HHheQIE1El -
@LeapMotionDev did a KILLER job on their JavaScript API…. WELL DONE GUYS!!!
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Zach @TimeDoctor from @LeapMotion 3D printing on a @deltamaker at @RobotsConf pic.twitter.com/DxcCy7K01X -
Developer environment for working on a @LeapMotionDev drone at #RobotsConf 2013 pic.twitter.com/O4iTiZAsQk -
I have made a Sphero my ward through Leap Motion. If you saw a little Sphere running away from me for hours, I’ve won. #robotsconf
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Check out @MakerSylvia‘s team project. A @leapmotion controlled flying drone copter at #robotsconf 2013
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Sylvia’s team project (above) ended up winning the conference along with the arm (below!)
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Robo arm with the @LeapMotion controller at #RobotsConf 2013
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Team @heroku‘s RobotsConf science fair robot. (Controlled by Leap Motion). https://www.dropbox.com/s/ifnq1tpkys0fbj0/2013-12-07%2020.43.37.mp4 …
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Played Mary Had A Little Lamb for @RobotsConf via LeapMotion and Arduino with @em_csquared @mattmanning and @hone02 pic.twitter.com/CAsAzRWhdj -
RobotsConf was last weekend and it was HUGE! Day 1 photos here: http://ht.ly/rD6B9
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Spending a few minutes navigating Google Earth with the @LeapMotion I picked up at #robotsconf. Next up–explore the API!
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Help us gather a listing of all the amazing projects you built at #robotsconf, please submit a PR for this: http://robotsconf.com/pages/projects.html …
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Pull requests are coming in about all the amazing #robotsconf projects!!! Review them (or add yours) here: http://robotsconf.com/pages/projects.html …
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Hearing about all the awesome of @RobotsConf makes me kind of jealous of not going. Need to find time to play with my arduino.
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