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!
Jason Striegel @ Hackzine tells us about the Cornell Microcontroller Design class and their final projects this semester: Pictured above is David Drew and Joanna Dai’s autonomous neural robot, which is able to learn to navigate an enclosed space at the fastest possible speed without bumping into things. Another project, Guitar Legend Maker by Thidanun […]
I have to admit, when I got email from our pal Robert Oschler, of RobotsRule, announcing that he’d penned a little ditty about Pleo the robot dino pet, I thought I might puke. But harsh truths be told, I’ve been humming the damn thing all morning! Catchy kids fare. Okay, maybe I did throw up […]
No Roomba left behind. Here’s a cool Instructable on how to control and add telepresence to a Roomba using a OLPC XO-1 laptop. OLPC Telepresence – [via] Link
We’ve talked about bicore nervous net BEAM circuits in the pages of MAKE. This two motor walker uses four “neurons” in its brain and is therefore called a quadcore. It’s basically two linked, oscillating signals that create a four-legged walking gate over the two motors. Two photodiodes make the walker light-seeking (or.. um .. shadow […]
Roboexotica gathers a wide variety of cocktail robot makers from around the world and bring them together for robot parties and presentations. I’m in Southern Austria in the city of Graz today visiting the information design college where a group of artists who are putting their cocktail robots together. The group shown above is in […]
Roboexotica is coming, Thu, Nov 22 2007 thru Sun, Nov 25 2007 @ Museumsquartier Wien, Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Vienna. If you want robots that serve you drinks well this is the best place on earth to find them… – Until recently, no attempts had been made to publically discuss the role of cocktail robotics as […]
iRobot published the 500 series (New Roomba) open interface specs, this is GREAT news and I’m thrilled that iRobot keeps opening up the interfaces for their fantastic robotic vacuums – Link (PDF). Related: HOW TO – Roomba Bluetooth Interface – Link. HOW TO – Make a Roomba Serial Interface – Link. iRobot 500 series – […]
