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!
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 […]
Interesting video tutorial from YouTuber casafear1 showing how to create a pneumatically actuated zombie “ground-breaker.”
I have to say that of all the improbable phrases I’ve run across blogging, “post-apocalyptic pneumatic werewolf” may well be the the weirdest. Which only makes this haunted house prop by Terra of HalloweenForum.com (her tagline: “Terror of the Cul de Sac”) just that much more, well, wicked, than it already is. (Sorry.) Make: Halloween […]
Vu Van Thang built this wonderfully detailed robot from trash, in order to win a Vietnamese robotics competition.
The electric chair is an old haunted-house standby, but YouTuber kenpilot’s version is really outstanding. Excelsior!
If you’re short on inspiration for your haunted house this year, you need look no further than this video by Terra of HalloweenForum.com showing the highlights of her visit to the 2009 annual TransWorld Halloween & Attractions Show. Highlights include a door that dents inward as an ax murderer apparently chops on it from the other side, a struggling victim chained in a box full of water, and giant vampire bats that swoop down from the ceiling.
Hiroo Iwata, of the University of Tsukuba, created these robotic floor tiles that automatically arrange themselves to build a floor beneath you.
