Making a robot can be an incredibly rewarding experience. It’s the perfect combination of creativity, engineering and problem solving. However, if you’re just getting started in robotics, it can also be overwhelming. To make things easier for those who are just starting out, we’ve put together some tips and tricks to help makers bring robots to life! From the basics of assembling your robot to software implementation, these pointers will give you everything you need to get started on your robotic adventure!
Apparently if you wrote to the BBC in the late 1970s or early 1980s wanting to know how to build your own Dalek, they sent you this fantastic set of official plans, which are now preserved for posterity in the cloud-mind at Tom Rathborne’s site. [via Neatorama]
Axel32 of Let’s Make Robots! built this nice-looking SCARA robot arm with computer vision capability for about $40
In response to the vibrating conveyor belt post, Ranjit Bhatnagar let us know about the sketching device #1 that he built back in 2002.
My friend Erica Kane, from HacDC, recently went to an open house at the University of Maryland’s robotics department. This is a cool thing to do, if you live near a school that has such a department (or some other tech discipline you’re interested in). Call them up and see if/when they’re doing an open […]
I can’t believe this escaped our radar until now — it’s the Bit-52’s, a robot band, doing the B-52’s epic “Rock Lobster.” Check out bd594’s (James Cochrane, Toronto, Canada) YT channel for some other great vids of machines making music. [via LaughingSquid, Boing Boing, and Dangerous Minds] bd594’s YouTube channel
Makey the Robot has become something of a MAKE mascot. We really like the little fella, with his Hollywood good looks. Makey was a featured project in MAKE Volume 19, our robot issue, and now, our favorite in-house metal head can also be found on Make: Projects, with the complete details of the build. The […]
The folks at oomlout go through a lot of resistors, so they have constructed a resistor cutting machine to help them prepare kits
