In the latest Make: Robot Build Newsletter, Matt Mets wrote a piece introducing motor controllers and linked to an ITP article on using an L293NE motor controller. In the Robot Build area of the MAKE Forums, Alan Kilian pointed us to this other excellent tutorial, Control Your Motors with L293D, on Let’s Make Robots. It […]
For those working on the Make: Robot Build, I thought you might get some inspiration from this cylindrical robot, just posted to Let’s Make Robots. It basically uses a plastic skin on the outside to create a bumpable surface. It’s not actually made of CDs, and it’s a little larger than CD-diameter, but most of […]
Flickr use JesterVineo posted this video of the adorable Noah (his son) explaining their CoasterBot. See, robots are so easy, even a small child, a really precocious, adorable child, can figure them out. Go, Noah (and Jamie, who’s also working on the project)! Noah’s and Jamie’s robot components: Arduino Nano v3, L293D motor driver, AnyVolt […]
We’re thrilled with the response that we’ve been getting for the Make: Robot Build. The weekly project newsletter has far more subscribers than we expected, and is growing into a little thumbnail course on robot design and construction, the Robot Build area of the MAKE Forums has some nice conversation going on, and we’re starting […]
Yesterday, we told you about MythBuster and MAKE pal Grant Imahara and the skeleton “robot” he was building for Craig Ferguson. Here he is with the robo-puppet, inexplicably named Geoff Peterson, on the Late Late Show. More: Grant Imahara builds a skeleton bot
In this video, our R/C covermower from MAKE Volume 22, out today, gets a dumptruck add-on. More vids of the Lawnbot on J.D. Warren’s YT channel. From the pages of MAKE: MAKE Volume 22, Remote Control Everything Automate your world with remote control. From pet care to power outlets, from toys to telepresence, we’ll show […]
We sent out the third edition of our Make: Robot Build Newsletter today. Things are starting to heat up. Folks are already coming up with some cool ideas for the designs, such as experimenting with thermoforming the CD/DVD material to make various shapes for their robots. Visits the Robot Build area of the Forums to […]
