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!
Here’s a great robot gift guide from the folks at robots.net, Steve writes – It’s time once again for our annual countdown of the top 10 Christmas gift ideas for robot geeks. With the growing popularity of robots, everyone knows at least one person who spends all their time building strange little machines. What do […]
Tom Jozwiak is a crazed robot and sci-fi movie prop builder who’s built dozens of bots from Lost in Space, Star Wars, Buck Rogers, Short Circuit, Dr. Who, and more. He’s currently working on a life-size Gort (from the original The Day the Earth Stood Still) and Wall-E. Below is a link to his YouTube […]
Members of Ypsilanti-Ann Arbor Area Robotics Club sorting parts for their motor controller A Maker-centric event, particularly robot-filled this month, in Ann Arbor, Michigan: The next GO-Tech meeting is this Tuesday, December 9, at a new earlier time, 7 pm. GO Tech (formerly NotBAGO) is a meeting for Ann Arbor (MI) area readers of Make […]
This huge, wall crushing robot looks like it might disrupt even the most rocking party.With an old school CRT as its head, it might be the ghost that DOS forgot. Super-A
This video makes me want to put an accelorometer in my hat! This is what happens when you take the device that makes the Wii controller work, and wire it into and an ABB industrial robot. Strangely, no word on what happens if boss shows up ;)
Mauricio emailed me a link to his latest project, the Rover AA1. It’s a robot powered by an Arduino and a laptop. Check out the website for more information, including the Arduino and Processing code. [Thanks Mau!] This idea and had thought for several months, since it figured it would be a practical way to […]
We’ve covered a lot of different robocritters from the BEAM taxonomy in MAKE and here on Make: Blog: rollers, walkers, spinners, pummers, poppers, crawlers. But one we haven’t, and I hardly ever see in the wild, is the robot ball/min-ball. Solarbotics even used to sell a Mini-Ball kit many moons ago (PDF here). I love […]
