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!
Members of Ypsilanti-Ann Arbor Area Robotics Club sorting parts for their motor controller A Maker-centric event, particularly robot-filled this month, in Ann Arbor, Michigan: The next GO-Tech meeting is this Tuesday, December 9, at a new earlier time, 7 pm. GO Tech (formerly NotBAGO) is a meeting for Ann Arbor (MI) area readers of Make […]
This huge, wall crushing robot looks like it might disrupt even the most rocking party.With an old school CRT as its head, it might be the ghost that DOS forgot. Super-A
This video makes me want to put an accelorometer in my hat! This is what happens when you take the device that makes the Wii controller work, and wire it into and an ABB industrial robot. Strangely, no word on what happens if boss shows up ;)
Mauricio emailed me a link to his latest project, the Rover AA1. It’s a robot powered by an Arduino and a laptop. Check out the website for more information, including the Arduino and Processing code. [Thanks Mau!] This idea and had thought for several months, since it figured it would be a practical way to […]
We’ve covered a lot of different robocritters from the BEAM taxonomy in MAKE and here on Make: Blog: rollers, walkers, spinners, pummers, poppers, crawlers. But one we haven’t, and I hardly ever see in the wild, is the robot ball/min-ball. Solarbotics even used to sell a Mini-Ball kit many moons ago (PDF here). I love […]
“Canoe” by Canadian artist Peter Fleming is a 20 foot long trough of water resembling a canoe where a gunwale tracking mechanism endlessly paddles forward and back inside the boat. The entire piece is solar powered and was originally built from aluminum, gussets, and bolts so that it was fully collapsible. Check out the link […]
This robot is called “WinBoni” and like its namesake, actually cleans your windows the way a Zamboni would clean your favorite ice rink. The project won first prize in the International Student Design Competition held by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers so it wins for a feat of anti-gravitational genius. Watch the video to […]
