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!
Brooklyn Robot Foundry is doing some amazingly whimsical things with robotics and young makers. Stop by and check out some of the wonderful robotic creations conjured up by Brooklyn Robot Factory’s fledgling engineers at the Young Makers tent in Zone C!
This year at MAKE’s Hardware innovation Workshop, Intel’s Futurist Brian David Johnson introduced a 21stCentury robot that is easy to build, completely open source, and filled with humanity. The idea is to enable as many people as possible to design, print and program robots. The robot he brought with him to the event was made entirely on a Makerbot Replicator2.
MAKE’s editors are offering six different “Getting Started” presentations this weekend at World Maker Faire New York. Beginner sessions on 3D Printing, Arduino, Raspbserry Pi, BeagleBone, Breadboarding, and Choosing a Board are taught by MAKE editors and will run multiple times a day.
Maker Faire loves robots. Don’t you? Here are just a fraction of the robotic exhibits, presenters and performers at World Maker Faire 2013. Robots for kids! Aerial Drones, Robotic Art, Humanoid Robots, and more.
Aided by affordable materials, 3D printers, and open source technology, the merging of human and machine is a thriving subset of the maker community. Next week’s World Maker Faire New York will showcase a number of these projects and the makers who made them. These projects are also a testament to the best impulses of human nature: once we possess new skills and technology we look for ways to use them as a force for good and to share them with others.
Now in the closing few days of its Kickstarter campaign the Pixy camera board isn’t just another camera, it’s a “smart” vision sensor.
Robots have been a big part of Maker Faire from the beginning. Check out Maker Faire robots from 2008 to today.
