A bipedal walking robot by Ye Guan: The robot will have a complete compliment of sensors to help it understand its surrounding and its own condition. The current design uses a total of seven sensors. For external obstacle avoidance there is a sonar sensor to detect long range surroundings, and an inferred distance sensor pointed down to detect […]
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KMel Robotics flying robots play instruments
KMel Robotics flying robots that can play instruments: Just a reminder about how this all works: each one of these robots has its position measured down to the millimeter (or better) at a very high frequency using an external localization system. The individual hexrotors themselves are being centrally controlled by a computer somewhere else, sort […]
Autonomous iPad playing robot
Tom Randle made this robot that automatically plays Leap Sheep on the iPad: On a complete whim about 2 years ago, I decided to make a robot to autonomously play one of my favourite iPhone games: Leap Sheep. The game’s nice and simple so lends itself really well to automation. Sheep run from left to right, […]
Autopilot MEMs robot
Arduino compass bearing following robot: When you don’t want to drive your robot wouldn’t it be nice to just point in a direction and have it go there? Well the issue is that every little bump and wheel drag will slowly adjust the direction so where it ends up after 50 feet will most likely […]
Poppy, an open-source humanoid robot
Poppy project open source robot debuts from France: Poppy is an Open-source humanoid platform based on robust, flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. Designed by the Flowers Lab at Inria Bordeaux and Ensta ParisTech (France), its development aims at providing an affordable and hackable humanoid robot for science, education, art and geeks. Poppy was initially made […]
SARRRO – Ultrasonic anti-collision robot build
Ultrasonic anti-collision robot by Gavin Hannah: I’ve also coined a name for my project. SARRRO, which stands for Search & Rescue Reconnaissance Rover. I’ve updated the site title to reflect this. From now on, I will be referring to my project as SARRRO rather than just “project” as I have been doing. Via Hacked Gadgets.
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 […]
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.
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 […]
Geek love: Valentine’s Day robot
Clint Stevenson and his son built this animatronic robot head for his Valentine’s Day treat box for school and wrote up the build on the Casco Logix blog. He relates, “The blog post doesn’t talk about or show the body of the robot, just the head. But my son and I are pretty excited for […]
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 […]
Resistor cutting robot from .:Oomlout:.
On our Shenzhen trip we were joined by the Oomlout team. While discussing a reel-to-strip cutting robot, Aaron mentioned that he has a resistor cutting robot. It’s built from laser cut MDF and acrylic, with a bunch of servos attached to load and cut the resistor tape. The project is open source, so all the […]
GOduino III – the breadboard-friendly Arduino-based robot controller
Techbitar wrote this Instructable detailing the build of his GOduino III – the breadboard-friendly Arduino-based robot controller. We previously covered the GOduino II. The GOduino III is based on the ATmega328p microcontroller and the L293D dual h-bridge. It’s built with DIP ICs and through-hole components for ease of assembly and repair. This robot controller can handle […]