Giger: Custom humanoid robot
Giger is a really cool looking humanoid robot, and the specs are impressive. The robot stands about 2 feet tall, weighs in around 11 lbs, and cost $10,000 to build! I guess those Dynamixel Actuators are fairly expensive!
Robotics
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Auto-tracking sentry gun build
The beginnings of an Aliens-style (except, you know, without all the actual bullets and killing and so forth) automatic sentry gun from diederick. The tracking platform is obviously flexible, but I think he intends to mount an AirSoft gun.
Automatic sound-responsive puppet mouth
Guilherme Martins built this “talkie walkie” in response to a challenge to build a robot using only one servo. It responds to sound in real time, automatically controlling the movements of a lip-syncing paper mouth. [via Hack a Day]
Talking Arduino Halloween skeleton
Samuel Seide brings us this animatronic talking skull Instructable. It’s motion-activated and uses a Waveshield kit for sound. [Thanks, Sam!]
iPhone Rock Band robot
Rock Band has been released on the iPhone, and even though its a lot of fun, I would rather have something play it for me. Preferably a robot!
Muralizer prints art on the wall
Josh writes in to spread the word about the Muralizer verticle surface printer/plotter project – which is hopefully a kit in the making – t’s a drawbot that takes SVGs as input, letting you print vector graphics really big. The project was started at noisebridge, San Francisco’s hackerspace, earlier this year, and we got a […]
Cockroach robot falls 28m, keeps running
The UC Berkeley Biomimetics Lab has created DASH (Dynamic Autonomous Sprawled Hexapod), a cockroach-inspired robot made from laser-cut cardboard laminated with some polymer. It runs fast and can withstand falls of 28 meters, after which it just keeps on about its business.