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!
Microcenter has the Boe-Boe Robot Kit that uses a BASIC Stamp 2 microcontroller for $50, it’s usually $150, so it’s not a bad deal and pretty good kit for beginners – Thanks Ksmith! Link. More: In MAKE 02 we reviewed this kit – Link.
Matt (from Phidgets USA) has a new robotics store, if you’re in to robotics, go check it out – “We have worked hard to create a new retail site for the community of robotics developers and we hope that Trossen Robotics will become a valuable resource for all. We invite you to stop by and […]
MadOverlord writes in with an update – remember that combat robot, the one with the spinning blade that spells words? – “The Brightsaber made its public debut at the 2006 RFL Nationals, riding on top of the latest version of my spinner bot, Totally Offensive. The bot had some teething pains at the event, but […]
Now that I’ve seen robots with 318 cubic inch engines, I’m ready for a robot the size of a house… wait, there was one of those in the performance too! The thing that really makes SRL special is the community of people around it. Even though many of the machines are rather dangerous, (it is […]
Mr_tentacle posted a bit about his new robot, the Gloom II – he writes “Gloom II replaces the original “Gloom”, which died of unknown causes. This is a Solarbotics Sumovore kit, which is a decent kit as these things go, but had a few issues, the biggest being a flawed trace on the main board […]
Ame writes “I wanted to accurately control the speed of the motor in a Tamiya 72004 worm gearbox for a robot I am building. To do this you must have some way to measure the current speed. This project shows the evolution of the speed sensor. As you can see in the picture, the motor […]
Interesting look back, forward – at robotics and computers from Mechanix Illustrated – 1953 (self-driving cars, robot elephants, prime number crunching computers, automatic factories, automatic sewing machines, self replicating Von Neumann machines) – “Our civilization is being invaded by a horde of mechanical men who are determined to change our way of life. But there’s […]
