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!
David “daqq” Gustafik from Bratislava, Slovakia wrote in with this excellent robot. It uses mostly harvested parts, including old motors pulled from an East German printer. But the centerpiece of the design is a tiny monochrome CRT. The CRT tube itself is a Tungsram DG7-123. It’s an old CRT, meant primarily for scopes. It’s got […]
This is the prototype of MintyBot, an Arduino robotics platform I’ve been working on. I’ll be doing show-and-tell in the Maker Shed Arduino area at this Saturday, May 22 and Sunday, May 23.
Dustin Wallace, whose bottle-opener ring for bartenders I blogged recently, has released the third figure in his series of fold-up water-jet-cut sci-fi “Robotagami” models. You can fold it yourself, or he’ll fold it for you. [Thanks, Dustin!]
We’re going to be doing a more thorough round-up of some of the other amazing entries in the Make: Robot Build, but we wanted to give a special shout-out to Jasmine (11) and her dad Shane’s truly unique project, Tortellini the Turtle Bot. As we said, the judging was really hard because we had so […]
1. Jartron! Jartron! Jartron! Jartron’s creator, Dan Ray, wins a $500 cash gift card, a Maker Faire Bay Area ticket, and a swanky Jameco jacket. Congrats, Dan! You really blew all of us out of the water with this bot, the fun video, your great PDF documentation — all of it. BTW: Jartron will be […]
Rachel over at CRAFT spotted this collection of 50 freely-downloadable papercraft models from Botropolis. [Thanks, Rachel!]
The folks at cellbots.com are at it again. This time around they’ve swapped out all the 5v components for 3.3v and in doing so have wired everything to run off the G1’s internal battery.
