Make: Robot Build: The one hour CoasterBot
Got your parts for the Make: Robot Build contest, and want to build something with them, but not sure exactly what yet?
Robotics
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!
Some CoasterBot inspiration
For those working on the Make: Robot Build, I thought you might get some inspiration from this cylindrical robot, just posted to Let’s Make Robots. It basically uses a plastic skin on the outside to create a bumpable surface. It’s not actually made of CDs, and it’s a little larger than CD-diameter, but most of […]
000000bot draws graf tags made on an iPad
Evan Roth writes: The 000000bot team demoed this iPad to Graffiti Analysis to 000000book to iPhone to robot to pen to paper system at Stanford’s Robotics Week.
Gallery of multileggged misnomerbots
Wired just posted a gallery of multipod robots which is, somewhat embarrassingly, headlined with “Robo Spiders,” in spite of the fact that almost all of them are hexapods. Looks like somebody over there needs a robobiologist to help them distinguish roboinsects from roboarachnids. Still, interesting browsing for the robophilic. Shown above is a rendering of an evil military spy-derbot that UK defense giant BAE Systems will probably never actually build.
Noah’s and Jamie’s CoasterBot
Flickr use JesterVineo posted this video of the adorable Noah (his son) explaining their CoasterBot. See, robots are so easy, even a small child, a really precocious, adorable child, can figure them out. Go, Noah (and Jamie, who’s also working on the project)! Noah’s and Jamie’s robot components: Arduino Nano v3, L293D motor driver, AnyVolt […]
New in the Maker Shed: Stingray robot
The Stingray robot provides a mid-size platform for a wide range of robotics projects and experiments. The Propeller Robot Control Board is the brains of the system providing a multiprocessor control system capable of performing multiple tasks at the same time. The Propeller chip provides eight 32- bit processors each with two counters, its own 2 KB local memory and 32 KB shared memory. This makes the Propeller a perfect choice for advanced robotics and the Stingray robot. This bot is big, and very powerful!
Wicked robosculptures
These are the work of Lubbock, Texas artist Dustin Wallace. Above is Homage 1.0, shown in both humanoid and jet transforms, and below, Homage 2.0, featuring extra-wicked elbow knives.
