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!
Congratulations to Antti Seppänen, whose Beagle Board-based robot is the winner of the first Beagle Board design contest. What’s more, Antti also created a very cool expansion board for the Beagle Board, and made the design available under a CC license: My Beagle bot required building an expansion board. Some requirements for expansion board: Wide […]
Next Meeting: 27 January 2009 7 PM – 9 PM (ET) ALWAYS FREE! Location: Smith Hall of Art, Room 114 George Washington University 801 22nd St NW Washington, DC 20037 Schedule for the meeting: James Mallos : BEAMbots and Wrapping Paper Sculptor James Mallos will talk about two interactive sculptures exhibited at the FLIK Film […]
…called, handily enough, Art Machines. Looks promising. Nice list of mechanized performance art groups and machine artists on the rail. Art Machines
The fine folks at Oomlout, makers of several seriously sweet robot kits, have put together an Instructable on how they go through the process of fulfilling their kit orders, in this case, a 30-kit lot. The idea is to show you all that’s involved in running your own cottage factory, by way of example. You […]
Pardon a little indulgence on our part, but our maker-pal I-Wei Huang (aka CrabFu) sent us this proud papa video of his new son, er… ShrimpFu seeing one of dad’s bots for the first time. You never forget your first robot baby-terrorizing. I don’t know which one is cuter. Okay… the human offspring is somewhat […]
Guilherme used Arduino, Braun hair removal device, XBee, servo, and casters to bring us – ratb0t! One day my mother told me she had one hair-removal thing broken (Braun Silk Epil brand ), and she would bring it to me. Of course I accepted, and I confess, I never tried to fix it :) This […]
I came across this video today of a iRobot create robot autonomously navigating a hallway using a standard laptop webcam. The guidance software centers the robot on the perceived vanishing point, which can be picked up from visual cues like wall and floor lines, allowing the robot to cruise in a direct path down the […]
