Carnegie Mellon wins DARPA’s urban robot race
Congrats to Red Whittaker and his team! In 2004 none of the robot driven cars made it to the finish line, but this year 6 of the 11 did – Link.
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!
Dalek builder’s manual
Wanna build a Dalek? Project Dalek has a really well-done Dalek Builder’s Workshop Manual that you can download, but to get it, you have to join the Project Dalek Forums first (which is free). The Project Dalek website also has a great gallery of Daleks built by Project members. Project Dalek – Link Related: Dalek […]
i-SOBOT gets skunk-eyed by Chumby
Meatbot-in-chief of RobotsRule, Robert Oschler, sent us this extremely silly vid of i-SOBOT interacting with the Eyeball Widget on the Chumby. There’s something very Marcel Duchamp for the 21st century about the whole thing. i-SOBOT : World’s Smallest Chumby User! – Link
Robot gallops around like a mini horse
Pretty funny video of this “galloping” bot by James Andrew Smith from the robotics labs at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. My alma mater! Bounding PAW Robot – Link, [via]
Do robot dinosaurs dream of electric sheep? Austin Maker Faire 2007 photos
Maker Faire photos from Steevithak including this pleo dresses in sheep’s clothing… – [via] Link.
Arduino robot
Dan writes – I’ve been receiving lots of neat little packages in the mail lately full of magical trinkets. Alone, they’re totally useless, but if you take the trinkets and arrange them just so, they’ll let you tell them what to do. Naturally the first thing I thought to make was a tank. I built […]
Pleo at Maker Faire
John Sosoka, CTO of Ugobe, was at Maker Faire Austin showing off Pleo, the company’s robotic dino pet, and answering questions about the bot, especially its hackability. The video interview is rather awash in the ambient noise of a very busy Maker Store, so the transcript on RobotsRule is your best bet. [Photo by Scott […]
