Robotbox is a site to share and collaborate on do-it-yourself robotics projects. I know there are a lot of engineers out there who have half completed projects sitting in a box in the basement or garage.

Check out the top rated projects already in the system.

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We send out all kinds of interesting/useful/cool tweets from our twitter account, Help4Engineers, and our readers have requested that we capture the best stuff in a blog post. So, starting this week, we’re going to do a blog post every Monday that is a recap of the most popular tweets from the previous week.

1. Astrophysicists rapping about the Universe (Sagan, Feynman, deGrasse Tyson, & Bill Nye). – http://bit.ly/8QWH2
2. New Scientist has an excellent article on how the brain makes sense of time. http://bit.ly/1160BX
3. Sixth sense let’s you interact with a pocket computer on any surface as though it’s a touchscreen. http://bit.ly/K8FEE
4. How DIY design gave a teenager from Malawi electricity, and can help transform Africa. http://bit.ly/1t8hI5 via @leleutd
5. NASA’s climate change website. Awesome info! http://bit.ly/mKkkE @andeanhealth

And my personal favorite from the week:

All engineers love nerf don’t they? Retro nerf bow and arrow tv commercial. http://bit.ly/2agJmy – via @andeanhealth