Crabfu on Discovery Channel
Our pal I-Wei Huang, aka Crabfu, got a nice profile on the Discovery Channel’s Daily Planet. Congrats, man.
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!
Give the Gift of Robot Invasion
Here’s a project I did this Christmas. It’s the “Gift of Robot Invasion” LED Christmas Tree Ornament from The Best of Instructables, Volume 1. The bot is made out of copper plumbing parts, scrap circuit board, dead transistors for hands, the bottom of a beer can (for the bot’s satellite dish) and paper clips. The […]
i-SOBOT named “Robot of the Year”
How about that? Tomy’s i-SOBOT, which the company just discontinued, was named Robot of the Year in Japan (by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) . Judges awarded this year’s Grand Prize to i-SOBOT due to its advanced technology, its high entertainment value, and its reasonable price of under 30,000 yen (around $300). […]
Vibrobot sports adjustable nose-pot
From the MAKE: Flickr pool Flickr member mskogly built this long-legged vibrobot complete with potentiometer nose – Made this cute litle vibrobot today, with some spare parts. Got inspired by an old Makezine article, and decided to smack it together. It turned out pretty cool actually, I made the potentiometer its nose, so when you […]
LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT One-Kit Wonders
Seattle schools were closed today (snow!), so my son decided to make a project from No Starch Press’s new book, LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT One-Kit Wonders. We really like this book – it consists of ten projects designed by the contributors to the NXT Step blog. The book is not for absolute beginners, but it’s not […]
SERB robot with Wii Nunchuck control
The folks at Oomlout, who created the OAWR and SERB robot projects, have put up a new Instructable on controlling their SERB (or any Arduino-based bot) usuing the Wii Nunchuck. BTW: The OAWR project is featured in The Best of Instructables. We have request a SERB kit from Oomlout and hope to have full build […]
“Stupid Robot” contest
I like “dumb bots” (a.k.a. BEAM robots) as much as the next analog electronics fan, but Baca RoboCup is something entirely different. These baca (“foolish” or “stupid”) robots are meant to be as idiotic as possible and must be “useless to society,” in fact, the biggest chucklebot is voted the winner. BTW: It also states […]
