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!
Climbing stairs. Not as easy as it looks. I know this from personal experience. I like how the winning approach is to favor one leg. That’s how I did it, before my hip replacement. I did NOT however slide down stairs sideways! RoboGames 2008: Stair Climbing Challenge
This enterprising builder is constructing a humanoid robot from little more than Shapelock plastic, card, curtain rods, rings, and finials, and bargain basement electric screwdrivers for the motors. I’ll be interested to see how this progresses. Android 10 [via Hacked Gadgets] Related: Crabfu’s SwashBot 3, now crabbier
“PIO: meet / greet” by the artist group / collective, Finishing School, is a semi-autonomous drone that moves through public spaces to send salutations to people in the six official languages of the United Nations. Built from what looks like the innards of an RC car, portable megaphone, distance sensors to detect pedestrians in order […]
This Saxophone playing robot from Japan is pretty adept at its craft. Check out the video at the link below of it tearing up John Coltrane’s “Giant Steps.” Also there are some nice close-up photos of the onboard gears and motors. Japanese saxophone-playing robot proves we have come a long way
Michal Zalewski writes: The page is a remarkably thorough guide to setting up a CNC robot workshop at home, and a first article in a series on CNC robotics. I created it simply because there are virtually no books or useful reference pages for people who want to get into @home fabrication without an extensive […]
The instructables robot contest deadline has been extended to July 13. Prizes include a trip to the 2009 RoboGames in the San Francisco, a RoboPhilo Walking Android kit, and instructables gear. Randy says, “It doesn’t have to be [instructions for] a full robot. It can be instructions to make any part of a robot or […]
The Balance board blog has a lot of resources and links about Nintendo’s new Balance Board for the Wii, and of course there are some interesting hacks already… like this one, controlling a robot. Wii Fit and We Ski might be the only two official uses for the Wii Balance Board, but clever tech-heads are […]
