If you have any Hexbug Spiders gathering dust or would like to create your very own autonomous creatures, a new piece of hardware created by Brad Knox called bots_alive can transform any Hexbug Spider ...

The Hexbug Spider is a neat little robot toy available at just about any Target or Walmart for about $20. With a few extra parts, though, it can become a vastly more powerful robotics platform, as ...

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quDHhuEsxEg&w=470] You may be familiar with the Hexbug Spider, a small electronic robot toy sold at Target and Walmart for $20 ...

We've mentioned one of Eric Gregori's Hexbug Spider hacks in the past here, and I've used his early hacks as the basis for a couple workshops in Guatemala, but this one takes the concept up a notch or ...

With so many toy robot kits pouring out now, kids of the near future might not believe us when we tell them that toys haven't always moved and "thought" for themselves. A new kit called bots_alive, ...

Good friend and fellow robot aficionado Eric Gregori has hacked a Hexbug Spider to wander about autonomously. Using the Texas Instruments MSP430 microcontoller and a cheap 14 pin DIP motor controller, ...