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!
Giant robotic spiders have struck again. First it was Liverpool, England, now it’s Yokohama, Japan. It’s painful to watch as terrified humans in white shirts and black slacks, stuck to the underbelly and carapace, struggle to free themselves. La Machine (the “theatrical engineers” who created this mechanical monstrosity) [via Laughing Squid] More: Photos of La […]
Instructables user travis7s made this RC Nerf tank with lots of neat features like a wireless camera with laser sight and onboard sound system.
Here’s a kit company, called Phenostream, we’ve never heard of before offering an interesting-looking and very inexpensive AVR-based robot kit. As you can see from the photo, the AVRkitCar is very tiny. It sells for CDN$85, which is around US$70. I’ll see if I can’t get an evaluation unit from them and do a full-blown […]
The Maker Shed is having a huge Spring cleaning sale. Now is the perfect time to pick up a Pololu 3pi robot for a really great discount. Not sure what the Pololu 3pi robot does? Not sure how to program it? Not a problem, I did a how-to a while back. Don’t forget to pick […]
With my Mousey the Junkbot project in MAKE and Solarbotics’ Herbie the Mousebot hogging the limelight, folks might forget or be unaware of the fact that the original LM386-based Herbie circuit was a line-follower, not a photovore (light-seeker). Peterman921’s MouserV2 is a two-time line-following champ. It uses the LM487 audio amp chip and two downward-looking […]
With the Bay Area Maker Faire only 6 weeks away, I started getting really excited about seeing old friends from past Maker Faires. Someone I always miss in the interim is Russell. I met Russell (aka Rave Raffe) at the first Maker Faire back in 2006. He’s a sweet guy, towering at 17 feet tall […]
Gareth used Arduino + MotorShield to create Puff – the Magical Firefighting Dragon! Puff is able to Put out Fires – He Scans his Head to find the Flames – he orientates towards the Flame – and Blows it out. If he fails to blow out the Fire within 2 sweeps then the “PANIC” mode […]
