Wheels that morph into tank track
Love this design of a robot/wheel chair wheel that can morph from a single wheel into a multi-wheel tank track, as terrain conditions dictate. Galileo Mobility Capabilities [via Solarbotics’ Twitter feed]
Robotics
Beetleborg, certified Creep City
Cyborg insects, hybrids of insects and machines, have been under development in military R&D for a few years now (no, seriously). Now, electrical engineers at the University of California, Berkeley have developed an implantable radio-controlled neural stimulating device that allows them to control, with a fair degree of accuracy, the flight of an insect, in […]
Robot feels slighted by MAKE, Volume 19
A robot named QuietBot #1524 posted to its twitter channel about the latest issue of MAKE: No mention of me and my work, but the newest issue of @Make magazine is out, and it’s all about lots of other #robots. We’re sorry you feel left out, QuietBot #1524. We went to your site and looked […]
How-To: Build a BEAM solarroller
Yesterday, I posted a reprinted from my old tech site, Street Tech, of a piece I did on Zach DeBord’s solar-powered vibrobots. Here’s another piece from Street Tech, one on building solarrollers, a simple kind of solar-powered car common in beginner BEAM robotics. Like the vibrobots, this would make a perfect project for a family […]
How-To: Build BEAM vibrobots
The following article is reprinted from my old personal-tech website, Street Tech. I thought these vibrobots would make perfect family projects for the “Teach Your Family to Solder” MAKEcation. If you have kids too young to solder, you could build a mint-tin vibrobot [PDF] with them (which doesn’t require soldering) and these solar-powered vibrobots with […]
“Defender of the Kitchen” junkbot sculpture
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 Bogotรยก, Colombia. Check out his Flickr photostream for other awesome […]
Party with Barbot the bartender robot
This Saturday, let a robot serve your booze at NYC Resistor’s Barbot party. Barbot, the bartender robot knows how to make a variety of mixed drinks. Like all great hacks, sometimes it gets its drink mixing protocol confused. Last time, my gin and tonic was 4 parts gin 1 part tonic. Date: Saturday July 11th, […]
