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!
Windell of Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories writes: What can you do with a busted (or merely obsolete) chip? Well, you can always make a trivet or even chip bugs. But here’s a new one: Alejandro Gonzalez found that you could make a BristleBot by bending the pins of the chip. Clever! Chip bristlebot – [via] […]
“Sleep Waking” by Fernando Orellana and Brendan Burns presents a new way to look back on one’s dreams. EEG, EKG, REM, and various other physical data is logged during the subject’s sleep and then later used as the script to direct robotic action – The eye position data we simply apply to the position the […]
Wow, today is a big day for robotics, specifically for Pleo owners. UGOBE has a new developer section and a “PAWN” C-like open source scripting language to write apps for the dino-bots. They’re saying hardware “hacking” “programming” and more — good work UGOBE, it’s too bad Sony didn’t do this from the start perhaps the […]
mp4 | ipod | hd-appletv | 3gp | 3g2 | pdf | itunes This weekend, make Mousey The Junkbot, a cute little light sensing robot that will skitter across your floors like a real mouse! This project was in Make: Volume 2 and was conceived and written by Gareth Branwyn of streettech.com. Mousey is a […]
I’ve been obsessing about making a drawing robot ever since I saw the article about scribbler robots in the current volume of Make: . Many people have made drawing robots and they have inspired me to want my own or at least give it my best shot. If I am successful, I will be able […]
Tom from Botmag has a great write up on a new receiver for robots that will default to a preprogrammed defaults for failsafe actions, good if you have a huge bot that you don’t speeding away on its own…A few months ago Horizon brought the 6-channel, programmable Spektrum DX6 radio to market for electric park […]
If you liked the serial port cable/board Roomba how to, you’ll really like this one – controlling a Roomba via Bluetooth! Roomba’s have a serial port that let you entirely control them. Adding a Bluetooth serial adapter to wirelessly control the Roomba isn’t that hard to do. It looks just like a serial port to […]
