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!
Ants are cool, but robots ants with mandibles are really cool. The site has several videos of the robot in action that you might want to check out. You are going to need a really big magnifying glass to burn this one! The Biologically-Inspired Legged Locomotion Ant (BILL-Ant) is an 18-DOF hexapod with six passive […]
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has a piece on a local bar owner who took fending off bums into his own hands: Rufus Terrill, who owns a bar in downtown Atlanta called O’Terrill’s, has grown weary of the drug dealers and vagrants he says frequent the neighborhood. Rather than put the police on speed dial or hire […]
The Kondo Humanoid Robot just got a brain upgrade, thanks to the announcement of a new controller board, the KCB-1. Robots Dreams has the scoop: The new KCB-1, which we assume stands for Kondo Controller Board, is a significant departure from it’s predecessors like the RCB-1 and RCB-3. For example, it doesn’t have two dozen […]
From New Scientist: This could just be the first of many battles to come between natural flying predators, and man-made flyers inspired by nature. Robotic dragonfly toys made by WowWee Robotics are being snatched by birds of prey. One boy had his grabbed by a Red-tailed hawk not long after unwrapping one on Christmas day. […]
It’s a monumental week for whiteboard drawbots, here – LadyAda has a version she’s been working on for awhile now available for gawking and if you’re super ambitious you can make one with her new Arduino motor shields – Link (photos). I fully expect there to be dozens of these out in the next few […]
Matt Mets made a hektor-esque whiteboard drawing robot for his 19th Thing-a-day project. He drew his favorite Tetris block. Arduino and Python code included – Link. Related: Hektor – The spray painting robot – Link. HEKTOR Meets DEXTER SINISTER! – Link.
@The NYC Toy fair 2008 was a favorite – Innovation first. They make the VEX robots as well as the HEX bugs. The big news, they announced the Vex-Mini and Vex Wi-Fi… both of these are good additions to their robotics / learning line up. Here are the details… The VEX RCR Mini, like the […]
