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!
This is a project in development for the module “Digital Ecologies”, at the Bartlett’s AAC Msc. A Delta-Robot is controlled by a Kinect through Processing and Arduino. The movements of the performer control directly the position of the robot’s effector, and the rotation and opening of the gripper. Once the plattform is properly calibrated (still […]
Ben Krasnow shows a handy demo of how to build an air muscle, which is based on this Instructable. This technique is just crying out to be paired with the HowToons Robot Hands from MAKE, Volume 19, also on the HowToons site.
I’m happy to present the pilot episode of an upcoming weekly MAKE video called This Week in Hobby Robotics, a roundup of interesting things happening in the world of — what else — hobby robotics. It’s hosted by Frits Lyneborg and Rik (no last name, please). Frits (from Denmark), who works professionally in web concept […]
Our buds at RoboGames sent the following announcement about their 2011symposium and competition. They also wrote to tell us that they’d also nabbed Heather Knight from CMU as their academic chair and were super excited about that. Congrats, to RoboGames and Heather. The Role Of Human-Machine Interaction In Robotics Research And Cross-Disciplinary Robotic Advancements And […]
Gavilan of On Shoulders is building an excellent looking 3d-printable dogbot, using openSCAD. But the awesomeness doesn’t stop there: He’s also producing a TV show about his projects, such as how to mill PCBs and print your own 3d printers. Well done! [via MakerBot]
Check out this cool Bluetooth Hexapod mod from Academy Award-winning SFX guru Dan Piponi.
Don’t forget, entries for the prize drawing in our third Make It Last Build, the Drawbot, is ending tomorrow night at 11:59pm PST. To be eligible for some awesome prizes, all you have to do is load pictures to the MAKE Flickr pool, and tag them “makeitlast.” Unlike our previous judged contests in this series, […]
