Spiderbot learns to draw
We’ve blogged before about Matt Denton’s amazing spiderbot hexapod. Here he’s outfitted it with a pen and turned it into a programmable drawbot. Hexapod Robot CNC Router [via] Related: Stunning Spiderbot
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 ladder helps you reach new heights
The “Walking Ladder” by Niklas Roy is a remote controlled ladder with a joystick shaped like a paint can with a brush. Pretty simple application for something that could actually be useful when you are painting alone and don’t want to move the ladder. Walking Ladder, [via]
New @ MAKE — Make Robotics Workshop: Humanoids
Nothing says “robot” like an android. So lets make one of our own! This course will take you through the steps of building your own android. You’ll leave with a working, foot tall programmable android! You can use it for kung-fu matches, dancing, stair-climbing or many other events. Only 20 slots available (one or two […]
Garbage Reader makes your trash a bit less hazardous
The Garbage Reader 1.0 (aka G.R 1.0 or Grone), is the first of a series of robots by Ireland-based, French artist Ben Gaulon that analyzes the contents of garbage bins. The bot senses its immediate environment for toxicity, temperature, and humidity levels and remotely reports the data over a network while it’s head-mounted camera streams […]
Build a BristleBot to clean up your apartment
If you are like me, you hate to sweep and are too poor to buy a “Roomba”. This BristleBot project by 11th grade programming wiz, Erin Kennedy, is a pretty simple way of getting some basic cleaning done and watching the bot scuttle around on the kitchen floor is pretty fun too. Bristlebot @ RobotGrrl
Robot projects environmental threat levels
The Environmental Risk Assessment Rover (ERAR-AT) is a mobile, solar powered, GPS enabled, networked video installation that accumulates and aggregates environmental threats and risks faced by populations in its immediate vicinity. The project presents an assessment of the calculated threat by projecting a 14-tiered threat level indicator (similar to the US Homeland Security Threat level […]
All terrain Roomba/iRobot
Byron Lahey and other researchers at Arizona State University are working on this all terrain iRobot modification. He writes: Robot Create robots are easily programmable and expandable in their functionality, but can only travel on a very limited varieties of terrain (carpet, hard flat floors and other typical interior domestic surfaces). As part of the […]
