WowWee Alive Cub dissection
On RoboCommunity, Grandlarseny37 has done a preliminary take-apart on the new WowWee Alive Cub robo-critter. Inside the WowWee Alive Cubs: Part 1 [Thanks, Robert!]
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Storytelling robot recounts ancient texts
This tabletop storyteller created by Kyoto University’s Robo-Garage recites The Tale of Genji with accentuating gestures and a retractable fan for dramatic emphasis. This would have been quite an upgrade from the story-bot I had as a kid. – Murasaki-bot
Hacking the Parallax Scribbler
Botmag, the website for Robot magazine, has a nice piece by Eric Ostendorff on modifications to the Parallax Scribbler robot to control it via a TV remote (which requires some coding, no hardware mods) and to create a charging station for it (which requires both software and hardware work). What’s Up? DOCK! Take Charge of […]
Jet turbine robot
Awesome progress shots of Justin Gray’s (Graywrx Sculptural Welding, Oakland, CA) latest project: a jet turbine-powered tracked robot. You can see pictures and videos of some of his other flame-throwing robots on his blog. Unnamed but almost finished 7/5/08 [Flickr set]
Putter Bot R/C golfer
Crabfu. Is there no stopping this guy? He seems to be cranking out a bot or other cool creation on a near-weekly basis. Here’s his latest, a remote-controlled golfing “bot.” Putter Bot
HOW TO – Build a one-motor walker
I featured Jerome Demer’s ingenious little one-motor walker in my book Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Building Robots. I’ve been hoping he’d put up an Instructable and he finally has. This is a bit of a finicky mechanical build, but worth the effort. It uses a standard BEAM bicore circuit as its brain (via the 74HCT240 […]
Robot face Flickr Pool
Someone has created this fun Flickr Pool of photos of common (and not so common) objects that resemble the faces of robots. Looks Like A Robot
