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!
Please welcome our jewelry polishing overlords. This is great, if I had jewelry, robotic precision seems extremely desirable, more so if those cheap synthetic diamonds ever come out – The VDK 1000, a robotic jewelry polishing system invented by South Dakota School of Mines and Technology mechanical engineering professor Dr. Vojislav Kalanovich, has been accepted […]
Roombas are painting @ Gallery Aferro, Newark, N.J – April 21 – May 26, 2007 Dedicated to James Murray Spangler*, an amateur inventor/department store janitor whose chronic lung problems may have inspired him to design the modern portable vacuum cleaner, the exhibit was in turn inspired by the work of Columbian-born Maria Adelaida Lopez. Lopez’s […]
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Isobot posted up 3 awesome bots, an airsoft Roomba, a laser roomba and mouse controlled spider bot! Link.
Here’s a sweet line following robot, thanks Liane! For the holidays, my local grocery store sold m&m’s candy containers in the shape of a racecar. The containers are painted metal (probably steel), with a thin plastic coating on the inside. A dinky package of plain m&m’s came inside, not peanut, as the yellow-color driver suggests. […]
Pololu offers robot kits, robot parts and robot electronics and custom laser cutting – I haven’t heard about these folks until recently but their stuff looks good! – Link.
Nuggets writes in – I went to Atlanta to volunteer during the first robotics championship. I had a privileged vantage point(resetting the competition fields), so I took lots of photos. I put them up in a gallery for easy viewing. There is a mix of everything, from First Lego League robots up to the big […]
Matt writes in – Here is a 47 sec. clip of my latest bot I call Infra-Tank due to the fact that it is controlled with my infrared stereo remote controller. This is a custom design/build, but is based on the parallax boe-bot. The tank tread kit is from tamiya and the aluminum plate chassis […]
