Cocktail Robot Festival Roboexotica This Weekend
Roboexotica, a cocktail robot festival, will be held this weekend in Vienna.
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!
Hexy the Hexapod now in the Maker Shed
What has 6 legs, 19 servos, an Arduino for brains, and ultrasonic sensor eyes? It’s Hexy the Hexapod robot from Arcbotics, and it’s available in the Maker Shed just in time for the Holidays.
Maker Faire Tokyo 2012 report from Yattar TV
An interview with the creator of the Transformer from Brave Robotics.
Holiday Gift Guide 2012: Give the Gift of Bot
Now I spread my end effectors a little wider to cover other robot-related goodies available this holiday. This is not a comprehensive guide, just some of the robots that have caught my eye or struck my fancy over the past year.
Tiny Reconfigurable Robot
This modular robot made up of <1cm components, can fit together with its cousins to form more complicated structures, building on a concept where proteins could one day do the same thing to form minuscule machines.
First Drone Games In SF Today
Autonomous Flight, with a Few Lines of Javascript The first-ever flying drone competition for Silicon Valley’s developer community lands today (Dec 1) at 385 Grove Street, San Francisco, CA. Organizers of the Drone Games, Jyri Engestrom & Chris Sanz, pictured above, write: “In the next few years the idea of drones will dramatically change. Here’s why. You […]
Transforming, 3D-Printed RC Robot-Car
This 1/12th-scale transforming robot, built by Brave Robotics, looks utterly sick as it reconfigures itself as a car. Look for it at Maker Faire Tokyo! [via Ponoko]
