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!
Dan Roe makes some really interesting robots that he calls “assorted experiments in artificial life”. Check out his website for more information, including videos of some of his work. More work from Dan Roe In the Maker Shed: We’ve had several neat projects over the years, and we’re proud that Solarbotics has created a cool […]
“Monsieur Houdin, n’oebliez pas votre oiseau!” is a mechatronic sculpture of a bird with an eagle skull perched on an oversize leather glove. Pretty interesting idea for a bot and pretty creepy as well, too bad it’s past Halloween.
This hockey playing robot is a prototype for a more expressive one no doubt, but we here at Make also like to publish projects that aren’t quite finished in order to show the process. This bot detects the movement of the ball and then takes a swipe at it. Next up, Gretsky no doubt! via […]
This from the Daily Mail: Jules has 34 internal motors covered with flexible rubber (‘Frubber’) skin, which was commissioned from roboticist David Hanson in the US for BRL. It was originally programmed to act out a series of movements – as can be seen in the video – where ‘Jules’ talks about ‘destroying Wales’. The […]
Check out this matrix-like hexapod robot CNC router cutting a 3D face in high density foam! via LoL.
My robotic alter ego steps out — open source.
WF-4RIV the flute playing robot… via LoL. In 2007, we developed the anthropomorphic flutist robot WF-4RIV(Waseda Flutist No.4 Refined IV) with 41-DOFs which has enhanced its flute performance by producing more natural notes and smoother transitions between notes. In this year, the lips and tonguing mechanisms have been re-designed to reproduce more accuraterly the human […]
