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!
Star Wars fans should remember the Death Star’s small maintenance robot in Episode IV which runs away after Chewbacca growls at it. Well, composer and producer Mike Dicillo has created a nice little robot that might be at home in the Star Wars universe — it’s a Roomba outfitted with an Arduino that gives it voice control as well as provide some interesting audio feedback.
Here at headquarters, we just wrapped up the newest issue of MAKE, Volume 27, the Robot issue. Look for it on newsstands on July 26th. While we were working on the issue, we were curious to see what kinds of bots our community members were making and thought it would be fun to host a little contest. The premise of the contest was simple: we were looking for bots with lots of character.
In this weeks episode of The Latest in Hobby Robotics, Andrew and
Frits are looking at some cool designs for home made robots.
Here are links related to the show:
Chris The Carpenters Steampunk robot:
http://letsmakerobots.com/node/27139
Wikipedia on steampunk:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk
Robot 2 by Axbri:
http://letsmakerobots.com/node/22431
Ant’s robots:
http://letsmakerobots.com/user/564/pages/robot
PetToyBot by mrkiss:
http://letsmakerobots.com/node/2225
Learn how to make a robot:
http://letsmakerobots.com/start
In this weeks episode of The Latest in Hobby Robotics, Andrew and Frits are looking at some cool designs for home made robots. Here are links related to the show: Chris The Carpenters Steampunk robot Wikipedia on steampunk Robot 2 by Axbri Ant’s robots PetToyBot by mrkiss Learn how to make a robot Subscribe to […]
This robot was designed, manufactured and programmed for a design competition (as part of the curriculum) held amongst first year Mechanical Engineering students at Delft university of Technology. The goal was to create a robot that could perform a delivery as quickly as possible, while also keeping as much as possible of the delivery on […]
Inspired by a Festo robot, NXT fan DiMastero built this robotic arm with a variety of Mindstorms servos, touch sensors, and even a pneumatic actuator. Also, good call on the Daft Punk. [Via Tinkernology] More: Make: Online | Festo iFab in action Make: Online | Festo CyberKite Make: Online | Festo AirJelly – robot jellyfish […]
This video from Al Jazeera shows off some of the improvised technology being developed in support of the rebel forces in Libya. Among the wares is a repurposed Power Wheels toy outfitted with a machine gun. [via /.]
