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!
Alan writes – “The Leaf is an interesting artificial intelligence and vision robotic system. It is open source, software and construction details are available on the Leaf Project Web site.” – [via] – The Leaf project – Link.
Speecys Corporation’s ITR Robot (“Internet Renaissance”) will be available as a kit for about $1,600 USD in May – the robot is designed to live in homes and interact with you, your phone, etc. [via] – Link. Related: Speecys Corporation – Link. Futaba Corporation – Link.
Mark Ho made this metal robot sculpture as part of an “ultimate puppet” project – [via] Link. Height: 16.93″ (43 cm) Weight: 13.2 lb (6 kg) Number of parts: 920 (of which 101 are found in each hand) Number of mobile parts: 85 Material: Bronze and stainless steel Details: The parts are all handmade. The […]
Here’s an awesome autonomous/RC crawling 6 legged robot with 14 RC servos! It can be controlled with a PS gamepad. The site has lots of videos and photos – [via] – Link.
Alain writes – “One more Bot to mow your lawn, YES, but this one is built from junk, I mean Sydney Junk …” – Link (French) & translated.
Clever design for a spray painting bot – “Hektor consists of a suitcase which contains two electric motors, a spray-can holder, toothed belts, cables, a strong battery and a circuit board which is connected to a laptop and controls the machine. The motors that are mounted onto the wall suspend the can holder through the […]
Robot gossip has a neat robot art project from Thomas Edwards – “Sycophant explores the relationship between viewers and a human-like robot. The human head is mounted on a motorized base which moves along a track. As a viewer walks by, the head follows on the track, while plying him or her with a cornucopia […]
