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!
There’s been a lot written about how humans anthropomorphize Pleo – but even dolphins are fascinated! This is an amazing video. Sirensgrotto says that Pleo reacts positively to the dolphins, too. Related: Hack the Pleo robotic dinosaur new dev forum and scripting now available BREAKING NEWS: MySkit – Performance editor for PLEO
Are mini-humanoids, such as the popular ROBO-ONE, ready to do useful work? You decide, as well-known ROBO-ONE competitors, the Sugiura family, relax in their yard while Mega-Dynamizer uses what looks like a modified electric lawn trimmer to very slowly mow the lawn (before he falls over after getting stuck on the dog house). Home Robot […]
This is a great collection of vintage Japanese robots, all of which can be seen at the Sci-Fi Museum in Seattle through October 26th 2008. The Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame in Seattle will exhibit toys from Geismar’s collection in Robots: A Designer’s Collection of Miniature Mechanical Marvels through Oct. 26. The vintage […]
Cool long-exposure photography using a two-wheeled Picaxe-powered robot as the light-source. I like the use of the CD jewel case as a bot body. Lenny’s Blog
Brushbots are little bot-like paint brushes that make art on their own… Brush Bots are tiny machines that work in tandem with the user in creating generative art. Released on top of a piece of paper, the BrushBots zoom, careen, and spin around the interior of a simple wooden frame in wild and unpredictable patterns. […]
I-Wei thought his SwashBot 2 was cool and all, but had lost some of the character of his original SwashBot. So, he built a third version that combines the mobility of the second with the charm and personality of his first crab bot. To build the body and the leg components, he used an amazing […]
My fellow Dorkbot DC-er Justin Sabe sent me this one. The title of the project page pretty much explains it: The 25¢ I2C Adapter: an Inexpensive Method of Interfacing I2C Devices with Personal Computers by Leveraging the Existing Display Data Channel (DDC)
