This tabletop storyteller created by Kyoto University’s Robo-Garage recites The Tale of Genji with accentuating gestures and a retractable fan for dramatic emphasis. This would have been quite an upgrade from the story-bot I had as a kid. – Murasaki-bot
Botmag, the website for Robot magazine, has a nice piece by Eric Ostendorff on modifications to the Parallax Scribbler robot to control it via a TV remote (which requires some coding, no hardware mods) and to create a charging station for it (which requires both software and hardware work). What’s Up? DOCK! Take Charge of […]
Awesome progress shots of Justin Gray’s (Graywrx Sculptural Welding, Oakland, CA) latest project: a jet turbine-powered tracked robot. You can see pictures and videos of some of his other flame-throwing robots on his blog. Unnamed but almost finished 7/5/08 [Flickr set]
Crabfu. Is there no stopping this guy? He seems to be cranking out a bot or other cool creation on a near-weekly basis. Here’s his latest, a remote-controlled golfing “bot.” Putter Bot
I featured Jerome Demer’s ingenious little one-motor walker in my book Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Building Robots. I’ve been hoping he’d put up an Instructable and he finally has. This is a bit of a finicky mechanical build, but worth the effort. It uses a standard BEAM bicore circuit as its brain (via the 74HCT240 […]
Someone has created this fun Flickr Pool of photos of common (and not so common) objects that resemble the faces of robots. Looks Like A Robot
Jerome Demers, who did the BeetleBot project in Volume 12 of MAKE, has posted an updated version of the project, which is says is simpler to build, on Instructables. How to Build a Robot – The BeetleBot v2 ( Revisited) From the pages of MAKE: MAKE Volume 12: if you are a subscriber you can […]
