Hand-carved robot stamps
A nice set of hand-carved robot component stamps, posted to the MAKE Flickr pool. More: From CRAFT, Volume 02. Access the Digital Edition here. Subscribe here.
Robotics
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!
Walking, wheeled, fire-breathing motorcycle thingie
This makes me deeply happy on a whole bunch of different levels. Mutoid Waste Company [via BotJunkie]
Arduino Mini-powered UAV
Here’s some video of Sean Reynolds’ UAV that uses an Arduino Mini, Maxbotix ultrasonic sensors, and a HMC6352 compass module for autonomous flight control. Wash UAV: Final Demo [via SparkFun]
The Rise of the Machines – Robot density around the world…
IEEE Spectrum: The Rise of the Machines – Robot density around the world…– There are now 1 million industrial robots toiling around the world, and Japan is where they’re the thickest on the ground. It has 295 of these electromechanical marvels for every 10 000 manufacturing workers–a robot density almost 10 times the world average […]
i-SOBOT hacking resources
Robodance is a popular robot control program that allows you to control a number of commercially available toy and hobby robots via your computer and a number of control interfaces, including the Nintendo Wiimote and nunchaku attachment. This is probably the easiest way to expand the programming capabilities of your i-SOBOT. The i-SOBOT Hacking Blog […]
More robot gift guides!
Here’s a great robot gift guide from the folks at robots.net, Steve writes – It’s time once again for our annual countdown of the top 10 Christmas gift ideas for robot geeks. With the growing popularity of robots, everyone knows at least one person who spends all their time building strange little machines. What do […]
Bot-builder extraordinaire
Tom Jozwiak is a crazed robot and sci-fi movie prop builder who’s built dozens of bots from Lost in Space, Star Wars, Buck Rogers, Short Circuit, Dr. Who, and more. He’s currently working on a life-size Gort (from the original The Day the Earth Stood Still) and Wall-E. Below is a link to his YouTube […]
