How To: Make Your Own Gears
Gears are easy to understand, make, and use, IF you know the vocabulary and can space the gears at the correct distance apart.
Robotics
Humanoid with quad-Roomba drive
Via Hizook comes this QuadDrive Roomba robot from the University of Bonn’s Autonomous Intelligent Systems Lab (NimbRo@Home). Check out the (German-language) video to see how the Roomabs move in unison via four servos connect to the base of the bot. And as Hizook points out, built on four Roombas, this is a bot that cleans […]
Belvedere the butlerbot
Butlerbots are starting to finally become more popular, many built upon the iRobot Create platform. Such is the case with Belvedere, who cracks jokes, serves appetizers (and cake!) at parties, and is teaching one-year-old Ethan how to dance like a cylindrical robot with no rhythm. Belvedere – A Butler Robot
Tortellini the Turtle Bot
We’re going to be doing a more thorough round-up of some of the other amazing entries in the Make: Robot Build, but we wanted to give a special shout-out to Jasmine (11) and her dad Shane’s truly unique project, Tortellini the Turtle Bot. As we said, the judging was really hard because we had so […]
And the Make: Robot Build winner is….
1. Jartron! Jartron! Jartron! Jartron’s creator, Dan Ray, wins a $500 cash gift card, a Maker Faire Bay Area ticket, and a swanky Jameco jacket. Congrats, Dan! You really blew all of us out of the water with this bot, the fun video, your great PDF documentation — all of it. BTW: Jartron will be […]
Make: Robot Build deadline extended!
JesterVineo’s awesome HUL-10 2.0 — that’s right, he and his kids built TWO coasterbots! We’ve decided to extend the deadline on the Make: Robot Build, until Monday, May 10, 11:59pm PDT. We’ve seen a number of amazing projects in the works and wanted to make sure everyone has time to submit their entries. This will […]
Controlling a robot with the Emotiv EEG headset
Robert Oschler (Boise, Idaho), of RobotsRule and the creator of Robodance, the robot control software, is about to release version 5.0 of his software. In this sneak peek video, he shows us how he uses the Emotiv EPOC headset to control a WowWee Rovio. Here’s a link to the article that explains how he used […]
