Robots,+Controllers,+and+Sensors

**SquishyCircuits**
Teaching Kids electronics with play dough
 * Squishy Circuits page
 * Make article

Arduino
Arduino is an "open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. It's intended for artists, designers, hobbyists, and anyone interested in creating interactive objects or environments."

Uses: Learning electronics.

Pros: Can easily be programmed using Actionscript, Processing and other languages.

To try: [|LilyPad Arduino], designed for wearables and e-textiles. It can be sewn to fabric and similarly mounted power supplies, sensors and actuators.


 * Arduino CheatSheet

**Robots**

Lego Mindstorm

 * Lego Mindstorms
 * Next-G programming Language

Kinect

 * Reading Kinect Data with Actionscript
 * Reading Kinect Data with Processing
 * New Interactions with Kinect and Computer Vision! Students in our Spring 2011 freestyle arts-computing course at Carnegie Mellon — “Special Topics in Interactive Art and Computational Design” under the direction of Prof. Golan Levin and teaching assistant Dan Wilcox — developed eighteen projects to explore the interactive and artistic potential of computer vision and the new Microsoft Kinect depth-sensing camera.

Pachube
[|Pachube], Store, share & discover realtime sensor, energy and environment data from objects, devices & buildings around the world.