We’re thrilled with the response that we’ve been getting for the Make: Robot Build. The weekly project newsletter has far more subscribers than we expected, and is growing into a little thumbnail course on robot design and construction, the Robot Build area of the MAKE Forums has some nice conversation going on, and we’re starting […]
Yesterday, we told you about MythBuster and MAKE pal Grant Imahara and the skeleton “robot” he was building for Craig Ferguson. Here he is with the robo-puppet, inexplicably named Geoff Peterson, on the Late Late Show. More: Grant Imahara builds a skeleton bot
In this video, our R/C covermower from MAKE Volume 22, out today, gets a dumptruck add-on. More vids of the Lawnbot on J.D. Warren’s YT channel. From the pages of MAKE: MAKE Volume 22, Remote Control Everything Automate your world with remote control. From pet care to power outlets, from toys to telepresence, we’ll show […]
We sent out the third edition of our Make: Robot Build Newsletter today. Things are starting to heat up. Folks are already coming up with some cool ideas for the designs, such as experimenting with thermoforming the CD/DVD material to make various shapes for their robots. Visits the Robot Build area of the Forums to […]
Tips, rules, and rules of thumb for building robots.
I love this spider-like walking mechanism, spotted on the MAKE Flickr pool. Here are some of the deets: The walking action uses the Klann linkage, specifically, configuration E006. The motors are Solarbotics GM17, from Technobots, which will generate a decent torque from 5v upwards, and a nice scurry at 12v. Pivot bolts are all M3x10 […]
Dino, of Dinofab, has been getting cheap Roombas off of eBay (as low as $20) and using their parts to make other bots, like this “RoverBot” above. I found the motors in the Roomba to be very user friendly. The have a belt driven planetary gear reduction transmission that provides very high torque and they […]
