The Arduino crew introduces the Arduino Robot. “The Arduino Robot is the first official Arduino on wheels. The robot has two processors, one on each of its two boards. The Motor Board controls the motors, and the Control Board reads sensors and decides how to operate. Each of the boards is a full Arduino board […]
Category Archives: robotics
LineBot project
A followup to the line-follower robot post, the LineBot project by bithead942: LineBot leverages an Arduino Uno which helps to decrease the complexity. I also used an Ardumoto shield for motor control (I’ll pre-solder the headers and screw terms). Using these will help accelerate the build since it means fewer parts on the breadboard and […]
Line follower robot project
exapod shared his line-follower robot in the project log forum: I’m planning of building a robot with a dspic33fj128mc804 and two encoders for implement some dead reckoning algorithms so for learn something on the dspics i build a line-follower, it uses 6 analog sensors that are read with the auto-scan capability of the chip, the […]
RAPIRO: The Humanoid robot kit for your Raspberry Pi
Here’s an interesting Kickstarter project the RAPIRO designed by Shota Ishiwatari. It’s designed to work with a Raspberry Pi and comes with a Arduino-compatible servo controller. Switch Science is one of the collaborators of this project: RAPIRO is a cute, affordable, and easy to assemble humanoid robot kit, which comes with 12 servos and an […]
UV LED drawing Parallax robot
Gareth over at Parallax forum built this UV LED drawing Parallax robot: I have replaced the pen slot with a bar of downward pointing UltraViolet LEDs one placed central to the hole and the others fanning out….. This arrangement means that i can send the Propellers internal character-set (no costly data tables) to the UV […]
RoboRoach helps you control a living insect from your smartphone
The RoboRoach: Control a living insect from your smartphone! by Backyard Brains This is one of the most incredible kickstarter campaign ever Control the movements of a live cockroach from your own mobile device! This is the world’s first commercially available cyborg! Via Open Electronics.
A Robot designed by a machine
HackEDA made this bluetooth robot with a pcb designed by HackEDA’s software algorithm: The pcb in this robot was designed with automated software written by HackEDA. Controlled by an Android tablet over Bluetooth. Check out the video after the break.
DomiCopter pizza-delivering drone
A few years ago Joe Grand presented his team’s pizza delivering robot on an episode of Prototype This. (See the video here.) The idea was cool but never caught on with any major pizza chain, probably due to the use of a ground based robot, which would be difficult to reliably navigate in unpredictable urban […]
Build a robot arm
Want to build a robot arm yourself? This video by Jacobk42 shows you how to easily make a DIY robot arm: Using some assorted pieces of wood, springs, string and some odds and ends will allow you to make a cool looking Robot Hand! Looks like William Jakespear has lots more cool demonstration of what he makes […]
Hand of PI (Twitter controlled robot hand)
IronJungle built this Twitter robot hand and wrote a detailed explanation describing the build. Control a Robot Hand by sending a tweet to @OurCatDoor. The Robot Hand understand the following commands. If your tweet includes one these commands in the text, the “Hand of PI” obeys your command. Valid commands are (lowercase): one (holds up […]
Mantis hexapod walking machine by Matt Denton
Matt Denton of Micromagic Systems built this Mantis hexapod robot powered by hydraulics: After four years intensive R&D, inspiration, design and build, Micromagic Systems is proud to unveil Mantis — the biggest, all-terrain operational hexapod robot in the world. This 2.2-litre Turbo Diesel-powered, British-designed and -built walking machine can be piloted or remote WiFi-controlled, stands 2.8 […]
AirBurr, an autonomous flying robot
Autonomous robot navigates using collisions: Meet the AirBurr, an autonomous flying robot specifically designed for missions in difficult, confined environments under total darkness. Airburr is inspired b the simple navigation strategy that insects use to follow – It follows a path and if it collides, it has an excellent ability to recover. Check out the […]
Robofish: create your robot fish with Arduino
Boris Landoni from Open Electronics documented his Robofish build: We introduce you a robot fish that is able to swim and recognize tank edges and obstacles. We’ll find out how we can easily create it with common insulating material and a few servo motor controlled by Arduino.
eNTuino based biped robot
WebWarrior sends a video of a eNTuino based biped robot: Junior is a Biped Robot based on eNTuino (Arduino-Compatible) platform. Robotics enthusiasts can make the best of the quality electronics platform, smartly designed mechanics and the wonderful Arduino IDE to create some jaw dropping moves. Integrating Wireless (Zigbee, WiFi, Bluetooth, GSM/GPRS) and Sensors will be […]
Pinoccio’s Web Rover
Here’s a video demonstrating the Pinoccio Web Rover. A mobile phone accelerometer in Brazil is controlling the small robot in Nevada in real time. The Pinoccio is an Arduino compatible Wireless platform. It’s based on the ATMega128rfa1 microcontroller with an 802.15.4 compliant radio built in. We built a “Web Rover” — an unmanned little robot […]
Makeblock – Mechanical prototyping platform
We met the Makerblock team during our Shenzhen Maker Faire visit earlier this year. They let us know that their system is close to being finalized. It’s a mechanical prototyping platform designed to make it easy to assemble robots, linear actuators, and other mechanical devices. Now, we improved a lot on this project, Makeblock can […]
Project Gado: open source robotic scanner
Project Gado was inspired by the work of the RepRap and Makerbot developers and was originally launched in 2010 as part of the Johns Hopkins University Center For Africana Studies’ East Baltimore Oral History Project. Their aim is to create a powerful, durable open source robotic scanner for sensitive archival materials which can be built […]
ATTiny44 controlled Hatsune Miku animated techno leekspin
Scott Harden produced this project a while back and decided to pull it out of the archives and send it in. Its a mock up of a Hatsune Miku character singing a techno version of the leekspin song (hence the leek in the character’s right hand.) “The goal was to create a minature Miku which […]
Arduino Robot shield
This is an Arduino shield intended for robotics prototyping. It features a DC/DC power supply, a sonar obstacle sensor, and a IR remote control receiver. The idea behind this post is to bring together some robot designs and trasform them in a new device with new hardware and standard software (arduino of course) and so […]
WiFi extending robotic tank
This video displays the work of eight computer and electrical engineers constructing a Wifi repeater-deploying tread robot as part of a senior design project at Northeastern University. The project was constructed at Artisan’s Asylum located in Somerville, MA. The beast above is a robotic system intended to be operated remotely in hazardous areas where network […]