The Arduino project began in 2005 as a tool for students at the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea (IDII) in Ivrea, Italy. The goal of the project was to create a low-cost and easy-to-use programmable platform for interactive art design projects. The project was started by Massimo Banzi, David Cuartielles, David Mellis, Gianluca Martino, and Tom… Continue reading Arduino: The Open-Source Hardware Platform That Changed the World
Category: Robotics
SCARA-Selective Compliance Assembly Robot Arm
The SCARA robot (Selective Compliance Assembly Robot Arm) was invented in 1978 by Professor Hiroshi Makino of Yamanashi University in Japan. The acronym SCARA stands for “Selective Compliance Assembly Robot Arm”. The SCARA robot was designed to be a more efficient and flexible alternative to traditional industrial robots. The SCARA robot’s design allows it to… Continue reading SCARA-Selective Compliance Assembly Robot Arm
ENIAC-The first programmable, electronic, general-purpose digital computer.
ENIAC, or Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, was the first electronic general-purpose computer. It was built by John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert at the University of Pennsylvania between 1943 and 1945 and was funded by the United States Army. ENIAC was a massive machine, weighing 30 tons and occupying 1,800 square feet. It contained… Continue reading ENIAC-The first programmable, electronic, general-purpose digital computer.