RepRap

I am currently writing a report about RepRap at a course I take at university of Oslo(IFI), called INF5078(Open source, open collaboration and innovation). I will post my report here later.

What is RepRap ?
Knock yourself out : http://reprap.org/wiki/Main_Page & maybe even join :-)

Robotic arm kit

Latley I was looking for a robot kit to buy. Something that can give me some ideas about actual functional systems and solutions and at the same time something that can be the foundation of a later project. Most of the ktis were either too easy or not much fun, but now I have found something COOOOOOOOL :-D
I am going to buy the "OWI-007PC Robotic Arm Kit + IBM PC Interface" from OWIROBOTS.com. It is a cool robotic arm which can be assembled and later controlled by remote control. This arm can also connect to the computer and re-programmed as they calim :

It's usefulness as an education tool can be extended to explore other robotic technologies like speech recognition, speech control, automation and animatronics using our OWI-007 Robotic Arm Trainer accessories.

There is also another version called OWI-535 that looks even better ;-)



P.S. : Well we bought the robot arms and we had a party for junior robotic students at university of Oslo, institute for informatics :-) Here are the pictures : http://robotica.ifi.uio.no/wp/?p=207