Alicia Gibb’s new book, Building Open Source Hardware, is awesome. It’s filled with interviews, case studies, discussions of licensing and manufacturing, and practical information about taking

Do people on the internet bring you down?  It happens to me a lot.  I’ll read an article, and before I know it, my eyes will

I flew to Atlanta last week to give a talk at Mailchimp. Know them? If you don’t send emails to big groups of people, you probably

What’s a robot?  Our working definition is that it’s a machine that Senses, Thinks, and Acts.  Cubelets and MOSS are pretty primitive robots; if you prefer Sense, Plan, Act,

Modular Robotics is moving!  We’ve been in our current space for almost three years, and it’s time for an upgrade.  Three times the square footage,

Modular Robotics co-founder Mark Gross was in a paragliding accident last Sunday.  He is not dead!  And he has balloons. Mark broke his back and a

Modular Robotics is now 72 people, and 72, while not an objectively huge number, is sometimes overwhelming since it seems like only yesterday that we

A few weeks ago Jon Hiller showed some ideas for next-level robot programming at our weekly engineering meeting.  We got to talking about boxes-and-arrows programming or

You may have noticed that we’re out of stock on almost everything. If you’re looking around on the site and you can’t order what you

Look at that, I made some robot art. Actually, if we look deeper, that’s a bit of a lie. (Don’t tell Santa! I’m on the