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!
@NYC Toy Fair 2009 – many of us know Erector as the iconic metal building “toy” for kids. Erector Set is the trade name of a toy construction set that was wildly popular in the United States during much of the 20th century. Like Meccano that was patented in 1901, it consists of collections of […]
Here are some photos from the upcoming Maker Workshop segment where John Park makes some awesome mini-robots. We were motivated to do this segment after reading the original article from Volume 06 of MAKE magazine. Huge thanks to Gareth Branwyn for sharing his valuable knowledge with our production team, and to the Twin Cities Robotics […]
Howard Gordon, of Surveyor Corporation, makers of the SRV-1 Blackfin robot platform, sent us a link to this software collaboration they did with Jeffrey Nelson, builder of the Forknife robot. Jeffrey developed an open-source Android console for the SRV-1 that allows you to remotely control and see the camera feed of the bot from a […]
This slide deck is a good resource for anyone looking to build a robot based on TI’s Beagle Board: At the Homebrew Robotics Club in Silicon Valley, on Nov 19, 2008, Nathan Monson introduced the BeagleBoard, focusing on the hardware and software features that make it popular among robot hobbyists. Building Robots with the BeagleBoard […]
Joi Ito took this fantastic photo (Creative Commens Attribution 2.0 Generic License) of Tim O’Reilly studying David Hanson’s Einstein robot at TED last week. We plan to publish a robotics issue of MAKE later this year, and we’d like to include a project for making a robot that has facial expressions. If you’ve built such […]
It was a busy week in the Maker Shed. We announced 2 new kits, the Deluxe learn to solder kit and the Arduino controlled servo robot. We had a lot of great builds and reviews too! We started the week with my How-to Tuesday: Arduino 101 blink an LED, which seemed to be very popular […]
When we were working on the Best of Instructables, one of my favorite projects in the book was the “How to Make an OAWR (Obstacle Avoidance Robot)” by Clement Fletcher. The bot used laser-cut plastic components that you can either cut yourself or purchase through Ponoko. The instructions for the robot were so extraordinarily well […]
