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How-To: Simple shuffling bot

How-To: Simple shuffling bot

Randy Sarafan just made another simple moving bot, this time with four legs for walking: My goal with Walker Bot was to make a 4-legged walking bot that could be made in ten minutes. This bot ultimately took me three hours to make. That said, my goal wasn’t to make one in ten minutes, but […]

How-To: Simple rolly bot

How-To: Simple rolly bot

Randy Sarafan writes: This Simple Bot was inspired by a work by artist James Rouvelle called Colony in which a bunch odd shaped ovals self-propel around their environment. It is my understanding that his bots were made by placing a vibrating motor freely inside of a Styrofoam ball that was then coated to give it […]

How-To: Grow gourmet mushrooms

How-To: Grow gourmet mushrooms

Instructables user zzapatista writes: This is a cheap and easy way to produce lots of tasty fresh mushrooms for the kitchen, while at the same time reducing your own waste and even handling some extra. The idea is that you will use an old coffee cup as a container to grow oyster mushroom mycelium, which […]

DIY hexapod robot

DIY hexapod robot

Dan Royer of Vancouver, BC, built this 2-foot hexapod robot out of lasercut parts, a displayduino and eighteen servos. I built an open source, arduino-based, bluetooth hexapod robot. I currently drive it from my PC simulator (also open source). I’m trying to figure out how to drive it with Android phones, iPhones, PS3 remotes, and […]

How-To: Multi-face pedal

How-To: Multi-face pedal

Randy Sarafan made this “Fuzz of 100 Faces” guitar pedal: For a long time I have been a fan of the Multi-Face Pedal and have been having fun exploring the different nuances of fuzz by swapping around parts on a breadboard. However, I wanted to make a more permanent fuzz pedal that I could use […]