Maker Faire 2008 – Robots!
Robots! Robots! People from all over the world came to experience the fun and excitement at this years Maker Faire in California. Here is just some of the amazing robot action we encountered.
Robotics
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!
Push-up robot with no arms
This may be the most disturbing robot video I’ve seen this year. Got a better one? Post it in the comments. Via Buzzfeed.
BeagleBot – a Beagle Board robotics project
Congratulations to Antti Seppänen, whose Beagle Board-based robot is the winner of the first Beagle Board design contest. What’s more, Antti also created a very cool expansion board for the Beagle Board, and made the design available under a CC license: My Beagle bot required building an expansion board. Some requirements for expansion board: Wide […]
Next Dorkbot DC, Tuesday Jan 27, 2009
Next Meeting: 27 January 2009 7 PM – 9 PM (ET) ALWAYS FREE! Location: Smith Hall of Art, Room 114 George Washington University 801 22nd St NW Washington, DC 20037 Schedule for the meeting: James Mallos : BEAMbots and Wrapping Paper Sculptor James Mallos will talk about two interactive sculptures exhibited at the FLIK Film […]
New machine art website…
…called, handily enough, Art Machines. Looks promising. Nice list of mechanized performance art groups and machine artists on the rail. Art Machines
Open source manufacturing primer
The fine folks at Oomlout, makers of several seriously sweet robot kits, have put together an Instructable on how they go through the process of fulfilling their kit orders, in this case, a 30-kit lot. The idea is to show you all that’s involved in running your own cottage factory, by way of example. You […]
SwashBot? Meet ShrimpFu
Pardon a little indulgence on our part, but our maker-pal I-Wei Huang (aka CrabFu) sent us this proud papa video of his new son, er… ShrimpFu seeing one of dad’s bots for the first time. You never forget your first robot baby-terrorizing. I don’t know which one is cuter. Okay… the human offspring is somewhat […]