October 23, 2007
Robot Video - Face Tracking Hexapod Robot
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Check out this tight ass hexapod robot from MicroMagic systems! Very cute. The hexapod was my fourth generation robot, and took around 2 weeks to build, the hexapod locomotion engine has been developed on and off over a couple of years. The face recognition sof ... More
October 3, 2007
Wii DIY Hack - Firefighting Wiimote Robot
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Cool, you can make yourself some Firefighting Wiimote Robot this weekend! It has IR sensors which can detect a candle and a bluetooth transciever to communicate back to a host computer. I use a boebot as the robot platform, an arduino, wiimote and a Linux compu ... More
June 1, 2007
Robot Arm using Potentiometers and Servos
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Wow, this is sweet… This could easily be implemented for medical robotic arms. A master/slave system I built using potentiometers, servos, and an IFI robotics controler . I took this robot apart a couple of years ago, but I am re-building it for a class ... More
April 9, 2007
Steam powered R2D2!
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Cool, check out the steam powered R2D2 that also got some servos! The first robot that I ever built, was a R2…. out of legos when I was 5 years old. So after building over a dozen steam powered contraptions, when I “grew up”, I knew I had to ... More
November 8, 2006
Robot Kit - Parallax Boe-bot
View This Video on You Tube Here’s our new boe-bot kit we got yesterday, it looks really cool. You can do some neat stuff like make a infrared sensors so the boe-bot detects objects and uses couple servos to run the wheels. We are going to start hacking it a little…hopefully we can get one of those RC car motors in it and make it go ... More
October 23, 2006
Building The BRAT - entry level bipedal robot
Cool looking bipedal robot you can get started, Our pals at ROBOT magazine have a -great- review and photos of this new/low-cost bi-ped robot, the BRAT - “This pictorial shows the assembly of Lynxmotion’s, www.lynxmotion.com, new BRAT, an entry level bipedal robot that is a milestone robot. With a starting price of less than $300, BRA ... More
October 2, 2006
Quasi the robot from Carnegie Mellon Univeristy
Wow, check out this quasi the robot from Carnegie Mellon University! Very hilarious in the video and seems to be very interactive at talking with people! We’ve already got robotic eyedrops that can facilitate conversation and react accordingly to their surroundings, and there’s even an R2-D2 clone to get your feet shuffling once you& ... More
September 30, 2006
Snakebots - Snake Robot Prototype
Wow, this is really cool… a radio controlled snake robot…maybe it can climb trees? and interact AI to those big snakes, anaconda? Materials: Basswood and brass. Components: Discrete TTL Control Unit, 14 servos, 16 batteries, 2-channel radio control. S1 was a recreation of earlier work by Shigeo Hirose in Japan, in which a single tra ... More
September 9, 2006
Humanoid Robot HR-2 from Chalmers University
View This Video on You Tube Here’s a cool video showing a robot entirely built on servos. chalmers, r-2, Robots, robots, servos ... More
