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!
YouTube user Ookseer posted vids of these hyperactive little vibrobots he made from pagers motor, watch batteries, and bits of tin. He writes: If you want to read more about them and how to build them it’s on my blog. All I ask is that if you build one (or ten!) send me photos! Drunken […]
I love all of the fun, inspiring work being done in robotic found-art sculpture. Bot sculpture, built out of junk, is one of the folk art forms of the early 21st century. One of the mad practitioners of the form is Mario Caicedo Langer, of Bogotá, Colombia. Check out his Flickr photostream for other awesome […]
The Temporary Music Machine is just as its name implies. It’s meant to be used for only a limited amount of performances, and then the parts are reused for another project. The machine works by using two binary counters controlled by the performer. These counters are then mapped to chord structures and drum sequences. The […]
Every other week, MAKE’s awesome interns tell about the projects they’re building in the Make: Labs, the trouble they’ve gotten into, and what they’ll make next. By Kris Magri, engineering intern One of my favorite tools here at Make: Labs is the plastic bender. The coolest thing about it is using the variac, a giant […]
Check out this robotic arm created by Dean Kamen’s company DEKA. Kamen was featured in MAKE, Volume 04. Via MIT-ers
The folks at The Wolfram Blog sent us a link to this story about using Mathematica to design unconventionally shaped, but (hopefully) structurally sound, brick walls that robotic masons might build. The author of the piece, Chris Carlson, Wolfram’s Chief Interactive Graphics Developer, writes: A few groups have begun to experiment with the idea of […]
Some incredible artwork from Meridith Pingree. My artwork physically tracks human behavior and traffic patterns using quasi-scientific, homespun, reactive sculptures. I use sensors to pick up on people’s energy and movement throughout a space. My work exists as amplifications of this subtle energy, creating unconventional, complex portraits of people and spaces. For example: kinetic links […]
