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!
Here’s a piece on the WowWee RoboCommunity forums about adding LEDs lamps onto the head-stalk of your Rovio. One of the criticisms of the Rovio is the rather poor camera mounted in the head. The lack of lighting on the head-stalk doesn’t help. If you try and look up at something with your robo-head, and […]
Here’s a robo-blimp that some students at Colorado State University designed. They score points just for coming up with the name infraLED Zeppelin. The article includes PDF build instructions and a complete parts list. Gadget Freak Case 139: The Autonomous Blimp [Thanks, Phillip!]
Adafruit industries took a little field trip recently to W/—— project space in Chinatown, NYC to check out Peter Sand’s robot-tended garden. The giant robot creates a garden, plants seeds, waters them and lovingly tends to it – the operator can control the robotics with a game controller and for the Arduino fans, it has […]
This article and video describe how to control a Pleo with a Nintendo Wii nunchuck and XBee modules. How to control Pleo wirelessly using Wii nunchuck
Check out this amazingly cool laser-cut, Arduino-controlled walker, inspired by artist Theo Jansen’s walking creature called the strandbeest. The patterns for the walking mechanism are available on Thingiverse, and you can get an Arduino to control it, right next door in the Maker Shed! You’ll need two micro-servos, too. Jansen Walker [via adafruit industries]
Dino Segovis, of DinoFab.com, shows you how easy it is to turn a RumbleBot robot toy (available for $5-20 on eBay) into an Arduino-controlled robot, which opens up all sorts of possibilities. Rumble Robot Arduino Hack
From the MAKE Flickr pool The behavior of yamamo2’s “Self-Propelled Toy Car” is eerily reminiscent of rodent navigating a maze – Like a beastie, this car is able to run on its own. I made by applying studying of chaos, complex system and neural network. The character of this car is very simple electric circuit. […]
