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!
Rik and Frits Lyneborg from Let’s Make Robots! are back with an update on the latest and coolest developments in the hobby robotics scene. Links to projects highlighted this week: Patrickmccabe’s Lottery Simulation Geir Andersen’s Sea Rendering OddBot’s SplatBot MkII Mr g000ze’s Marblephone the Melody Machine Gareth’s ThunderBird 6 – Gold-Coin-Ring-BottleTop-Finder Subscribe to the MAKE […]
A lot of us saw a tantalizing glimpse of EMSL‘s sweet new barbot on the most recent episode of Make: Live, and here it is! Twice the pumps, twice the ingredients and twice the radness of last year’s model. My favorite part are the beakers cut into spouts that dip down to dispense the ingredients […]
SAMSA is based on the Wiring board, with an ATmega128 microcontroller, and SAMSA II on the Arduino Mega, with an ATmega1280. Both are pretty similar, tough the ATmega1280 has 8 KB SRAM, twice the ATmega128. For SAMSA II the Arduino IDE was not used. The software was written directly in C++, using some libraries from […]
What do you get when you cram a PIC microcontroller, servo, IR receiver, and a sawed-off Airsoft into a cake dome? Why, a “Tupperware Turret Airsoft Gun”, of course. If you’ve got a need for a non-lethal remote sentry device for your home or office, consider this serviceable deterrent how-to from Chris at PyroElectro.
We have done both gear- and gear-making-related roundups before, but our gear world has turned (bam!) quite a few times since then, and we’ve covered some even hotter gear action in the interim. Someday there’s going to be a gear-roundup roundup. But for now, here’s our top gear content as it stands today:
Idahoan Dean Williams used to make a living by repairing vintage mechanical cameras. If you’ve ever pulled your hair out trying to replace a small spring that hasn’t been manufactured since the factory was bombed by Göring’s Luftwaffe, you may be interested in his well-documented DIY method. Dean’s trick for annealing them inside a wad of steel wool in a toaster oven is worth a click all by itself. His entire site, in fact, will likely be of interest to those who appreciate close mechanical work.
They call it “juggling,” which, I must say, in deference to all the jugglers out there: it ain’t. But “catch” is still an extremely impressive addition to the extremely impressive list of extremely impressive stunts which quadrotor UAVs have been pulling off recently. Filmed at the Flying Machine Arena research facility at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, in Zurich. [via adafruit]
