WowWee Alive Cub dissection
On RoboCommunity, Grandlarseny37 has done a preliminary take-apart on the new WowWee Alive Cub robo-critter. Inside the WowWee Alive Cubs: Part 1 [Thanks, Robert!]
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!
Refreshingly straightforward robotic clock
(Nope, it’s not a glimpse of an alternate reality where LEDs never came to be.) The “Stonehenge” clock-bot is more art than appliance – it uses a single robotic arm with a set of numbered cards to convey the time – Stonehenge uses a CrustCrawler Smart Arm and a Parallax Propeller chip to display the […]
Autonomous bot uses pencil erasers as bumpers
This “pencil pusher” autonomous sumo robot uses pencil erasers as bumpers when it hits obstacles. We think it might be more effective in “robot wars” if the pencils were sharpened and their orientation was reversed on this bot. Sensors of No.2 Champion Autonomous Mini-Sumo Robot
Trossen contest winners
Trossen Robotics has announced the winners of their latest Trossen Robotics Community building contest. This scratch-built Wall-E, by TRC member 4mem8, won first prize (a SG-5UT Robotic Arm). Trossen writes: We got to watch 4mem8 bring this guy to life and document every painstaking step that he took building this Wall-E robot from scratch. That’s […]
Storytelling robot recounts ancient texts
This tabletop storyteller created by Kyoto University’s Robo-Garage recites The Tale of Genji with accentuating gestures and a retractable fan for dramatic emphasis. This would have been quite an upgrade from the story-bot I had as a kid. – Murasaki-bot
FailureBot 5
Micah Carrick has posted some really excellent docs detailing his creation of a line-following robot, now in its 5th generation. The robot project is part of a series of tutorials he’s done on his site about working with AVR microcontrollers. FailureBot 5 – A Line Following Robot [Via ladyada’s ranting]
Hacking the Parallax Scribbler
Botmag, the website for Robot magazine, has a nice piece by Eric Ostendorff on modifications to the Parallax Scribbler robot to control it via a TV remote (which requires some coding, no hardware mods) and to create a charging station for it (which requires both software and hardware work). What’s Up? DOCK! Take Charge of […]
