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!
Amazing. This is Clockwork, my fifth major K’nex ball machine, and my largest and most complex K’nex structure to date. It took 8 months to build, has over 40,000 pieces, over 450 feet of track, 21 different paths, 8 motors, 5 lifts, and a one-of-a-kind computer-controlled crane, as well as two computer-controlled illuminated K’nex balls. […]
Over 400 makers, with ages ranging from young to seasoned, are gearing up to share their hard work and innovative projects with the community. Among them is GUS Robotics Team 228, who are bringing their prized basketball-playing GUS 14 robot. We caught up with team captain Dave Powers to hear more about GUS 14 and the team of brilliant young makers who made it.
Whether you’re creating a costume for the next convention or gearing up for Halloween a little early, you’ll dig Etsy seller Ivan Owen’s mechanical hand extensions. Covered in fur or left bare, Owen’s prosthesis are suitable for werewolfs to steampunk robots and everything in between.
Darren built this robotic arm for a high school project. it can be controlled either via Bluetooth using a smartphone or via IR using a TV remote control. So how did the idea of a robotic arm come to me? Well, the first thing I remember is our chemistry teacher (!) coming to me yelling […]
Most of the work coming out of robotics powerhouse Boston Dynamics looks like it just came off a movie set. But it’s demonstrations like the recently released video of DARPA’s LS3 Legged Squad Support System going through it’s paces: climbing up hills, over rocky terrain, through brush, tracking humans, that you finally notice it’s the real thing.
Congrats to robot fans Rodolfo, Julián, Lucio and Mónica for the successful Kickstarter funding of their Multiplo robot set. We developed this system in order to prototype robots. But we ended inventing a platform to build things. We have been using it at public schools and it had proved to be suitable as teaching material. […]
This is the latest video from Boston Dynamics, the company famous for creating the dynamically stable quadruped Big Dog. Just six months ago, we saw this Cheetah robot run at 18mph, crushing the previous speed record of 13.1mph, which was set at MIT in 1989. This time, it’s running at 28.3mph; quick enough, in fact, to overtake […]
