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!
Tom from Robot magazine writes – “One of our readers hacked a Robonova-1 and gave it the ability to speak. It uses a small Quadravox QV306M1 chip that can accept up to four minutes of audio files that can be broken into up to 240 separate ound bites–you can source sound files from practically anywhere. […]
Robot dreams writes – “The Maru Family, winners of the ROBO-ONE 10 competition with King Kizer, won a limited edition, human sized, Gundam kit and have documented the whole assembly process from start to finish with some great and very detailed photos.” – [via] Link.
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Mr_tentacle has a new bot! “The overall height is about 15”. Changes from the original design include more height (4 more inches), Hitec H5995-TG high torque servos for drive instead of the original gearmotors, 6″ diameter wheels, and more mass at the base to reduce the torque load on the […]
Gareth writes – “I posted another how-to on Street Tech related to my MAKE BEAM articles. This one is on Vibrobots, a type of solar-powered bot that gets around by using pager (or other DC) motors that have vibration weights on their shafts. The control circuit is the same one I talk about in my […]
Note: This video doesn’t have sound! Why are we hooking up robots to our brain when they will eventually use this connection against us! The Neural Systems Group over at UW says, We have developed a non-invasive brain-computer interface (BCI) that allows a user to command a humanoid robot to pick up objects and bring […]
So you got a robot, but don’t know what to do with it? Play games! In this game, played at the second Wonderful Robot Carnival, you try and pop the balloons on other robot’s backs while protecting your own! – Link
Huh – it’s not clear the status of this project but, here’s an interesting AVR based bot you can control/program/hack on… “Tux Droid is a first generation 2.4 GHz wireless robot specially built for Linux. Tux Droid will be your favorite smart companion. Connect him to your PC and make him flap his wings, dance […]
