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!
Bumped into this while poking around YouTube. An exemplary build of a Trimet BEAMbot, as covered in my BEAM projects in MAKE Volume 06. The near-perfect symmetry of the construction (often overlooked by some builders) leads to a really smooth, consistent motion. The builder used 1000 uF caps and the FLED (Flashing LED) variant of […]
MP4 | Hi-Def | Blip | Youtube | PDF | Subscribe This week, take the first step towards making your own self-replicating rapid-prototyping robot! You can order up your boards, from the Reprap foundation or make your own since the whole project is open source. Get your parts and solder these up and test them! […]
From the Japanese anime series S.A.C. (Stand Alone Complex), a Tachikoma Mark 2 robot comes to life. It looks like a four-legged toilet and cackles away like an over-caffeinated schoolkid. According to Boing Boing Gadgets, Audiocubes is going to be importing it to the US first-quarter ’08 and it’ll sell for $199. SAC (Stand Alone […]
The Milamp project attempts to interject emotional responses into everyday objects around the office. This video illustrates the point perfectly as the lamps look utterly bored with their surroundings. Milamp Kitchen –Link
Jed Berk’s autonomous blimps are on the move.
Peter writes – The devices shown here were created to explore aspects of regular, step-wise locomotion where the only energy input required is gravity. The first models were attempts to find a non-collision version of the “Wilson Walkie” type of ramp walker. These maintain constant surface contact and move with a rolling, non-scrubbing motion. Another […]
Matt Trossen’s talk from the 2007 RoboDevelopment conference is on YouTube (in ten parts). He does the typical techno-timeline leading up to robotics, posits where robotics can go, the impediments, next steps, need for standards, the usual drill, but well laid out. I like the way he starts out: When I look out into the […]
