NASA JPL Open Source Rover Project

https://opensourcerover.jpl.nasa.gov/
https://github.com/nasa-jpl/open-source-rover.git7

"The JPL Open Source Rover is an open source, build it yourself, scaled down version of the 6 wheel rover design that JPL uses to explore the surface of Mars. The Open Source Rover is designed almost entirely out of consumer off the shelf (COTS) parts. This project is intended to be a teaching and learning experience for those who want to get involved in mechanical engineering, software, electronics, or robotics."

Synthetic muscle that lifts 1,000 TIMES its own weight

"Synthetic muscle that lifts 1,000 TIMES its own weight could lead to super-strong humanoid robots"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4898544/Silicon-3D-printed-muscle-lead-lifelike-robots.html

Amazon Robotics Challenge (ARC) and RoboCup 2017

https://www.robocup2017.org/eng/index.html

https://www.amazonrobotics.com/#/roboticschallenge

TurtleBot3

• http://www.turtlebot.com/
• http://turtlebot3.robotis.com/en/latest/
• https://github.com/ROBOTIS-GIT
• https://github.com/ROBOTIS-GIT/turtlebot3
• http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-hardware/review-robotis-turtlebot-3
• http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-software/celebrating-9-years-of-ros

This week, IEEE will be posting additional news items from the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) in Singapore

http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-software/all-the-latest-most-exciting-robotics-research-from-icra-2017

2D/3D CAD Programs

An amazing commercial 2D/3D CAD tool, Solidworks
http://www.solidworks.com/sw/products/3d-cad/solidworks-standard.htm

http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/List_of_CAD_Programs

http://www.freecadweb.org/

• http://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/?title=Screenshots

• https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD

KiCad PCB Design Tool - Open Source

I just happened to come across this free Open Source software today, and imagine it may be of interest to others...
http://kicad-pcb.org/


10 Part Tutorial On Designing/Building A PCB (Using FOSS)
https://contextualelectronics.com/gtb-kicad-4-0/

KiCad examples
https://github.com/guanix/boards

Raspberry Pi 3 with WiFi and Bluetooth

http://www.i-programmer.info/news/91-hardware/9485-raspberry-pi-3-with-wifi-and-bluetooth.html