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!
Christian “Mekkaniak” Eriksson writes – “Kids (8-9 years) at a local school here in Sweden just finished two days of “tinkering”. Using old VCRs, broken powertools, computerparts and other bits and pieces of abandoned technology, they created fantasy robots that can make anything from doing homework to stopping time. This teaches the Make spirit, creativity… […]
Doesn’t get more NEWS FROM THE FUTURE than this… – “The RI-MAN robot carries a life-sized doll at the Riken laboratory in Nagoya, central Japan. The RI-MAN is a seeing, hearing and smelling robot that can carry human beings and is aimed at helping care for the country’s growing number of elderly.” [via] Link. Related: […]
First ever human vs autonomous / hacked pool playing Roomba at the Gawker/Lifehacker party at South by Southwest – the human controls the Roomba and tries to get the pool balls in before the programmed robot. Link.
This robot hitches a ride on people to get around – “The Parasitic Humanoid (PH) is a wearable robot for modeling nonverbal human behavior. This anthropomorphic robot senses the behavior of the wearer and has the internal models to learn the process of human sensory motor integration continuously, thereafter it begins to predict the next […]
Michael’s iPaq controlled Roomba how-to “Add an iPaq to your Roomba, take over the world! (or, well, maybe just your house). Part I in a series documenting my Roomba platform/swarm project.” – Link.
From our pals at Robot Magazine – “Robots today play an important role in hospitals. Dr. Michael Black, a pediatrician who specializes in cardiac surgery, uses the RP-6 telepresence robot to visit a greater number of patients in a working day than was previously possible, and the quality of his care has been enhanced as […]
Chris shot some great videos from our underground Roomba brawl at Etech – some of the videos are from the cameras we mounted during the actual throw down – Link.
