Archive: Robotics
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November 29, 2007
Japanese competition robot father/son team
Geegdad segment of Wired Science on a father and son who build competition humanoid robots.
Wired Science Geek Dad: Nao Maru & King Kizer - Link
Posted by Gareth Branwyn |
Nov 29, 2007 06:00 AM
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The Wooden menace - Robotic arm
Chris writes -
This project is a robotic arm made mostly from Wood. It cost less than $50 to make and has alot of the functionality that any normal robotic arm would have. It is controlled by a PIC MicroController and cloned PS1 controller.The Wooden menace - Robotic arm - Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Nov 29, 2007 01:00 AM
DIY Projects, Robotics |
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November 27, 2007
Super-symmetrical Symet
Bumped into this while poking around YouTube. An exemplary build of a Trimet BEAMbot, as covered in my BEAM projects in MAKE Volume 06. The near-perfect symmetry of the construction (often overlooked by some builders) leads to a really smooth, consistent motion. The builder used 1000 uF caps and the FLED (Flashing LED) variant of the Miller Solar Engine. More pics of this and other BEAM robots at the Flickr link below.
Related:
- BEAM coverage on MAKE: Blog - Link
Beam bots - Link
From the pages of MAKE:
- A Beginner's Guide to BEAM - The BEAM design approach creates nimble robots from simple components, with no programming required. Subscribers--read this article now in your digital edition!
Posted by Gareth Branwyn |
Nov 27, 2007 07:00 AM
Electronics, Robotics |
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November 23, 2007
Make a Reprap Robot Part 1: The Electronics - Weekend Project Podcast
This week, take the first step towards making your own self-replicating rapid-prototyping robot! You can order up your boards, from the Reprap foundation or make your own since the whole project is open source. Get your parts and solder these up and test them! Huge thanks goes out to Zach Hoeken, who inspired this project. Marius Kintel, Philipp Tiefenbacher, Benko, Red, and other folks at Metalab along with Michael Zeltner and Flo of the GRL Vienna crew pulled a lot of all nighters this week getting this robot together to present at Roboexotica. The best ways to make excellent new friends is to ask for help on an ambitious project!
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Posted by Bre Pettis |
Nov 23, 2007 09:00 AM
MAKE Podcast, Robotics, Weekend Projects |
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November 21, 2007
Funny robot press conference
From the Japanese anime series S.A.C. (Stand Alone Complex), a Tachikoma Mark 2 robot comes to life. It looks like a four-legged toilet and cackles away like an over-caffeinated schoolkid. According to Boing Boing Gadgets, Audiocubes is going to be importing it to the US first-quarter '08 and it'll sell for $199.
SAC (Stand Alone Complex) Robot - Link
Posted by Gareth Branwyn |
Nov 21, 2007 02:00 PM
Robotics, Toys and Games |
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Lamp exhibits human emotions
The Milamp project attempts to interject emotional responses into everyday objects around the office. This video illustrates the point perfectly as the lamps look utterly bored with their surroundings.
Milamp Kitchen -Link
Posted by Jonah Brucker-Cohen |
Nov 21, 2007 10:46 AM
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November 20, 2007
Passive-Dynamic models
Peter writes -
The devices shown here were created to explore aspects of regular, step-wise locomotion where the only energy input required is gravity. The first models were attempts to find a non-collision version of the "Wilson Walkie" type of ramp walker. These maintain constant surface contact and move with a rolling, non-scrubbing motion. Another goal was to see how this movement could be achieved with as few moving parts, or degrees of freedom as possible (see "single piece walker"). The hopping models demonstrate passive, persistent hopping with regulated descent down the ramp. A future goal is to incorporate this motion into a passive bipedal running robot.Passive-Dynamic models - Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Nov 20, 2007 02:00 PM
Arts, Robotics |
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Matt Trossen at RoboDev
Matt Trossen's talk from the 2007 RoboDevelopment conference is on YouTube (in ten parts). He does the typical techno-timeline leading up to robotics, posits where robotics can go, the impediments, next steps, need for standards, the usual drill, but well laid out.
I like the way he starts out:
When I look out into the crowd, I see a room of unresaonable people. Then he quotes from George Bernard Shaw: "A reasonable man adapts himself to the world: An unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
RoboDev Speech pt. 1 - Link
Posted by Gareth Branwyn |
Nov 20, 2007 02:00 PM
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November 15, 2007
Microcontroller design final projects from Cornell University
Jason Striegel @ Hackzine tells us about the Cornell Microcontroller Design class and their final projects this semester:
Pictured above is David Drew and Joanna Dai's autonomous neural robot, which is able to learn to navigate an enclosed space at the fastest possible speed without bumping into things. Another project, Guitar Legend Maker by Thidanun Saensuksopa and John Del Gaizo, is a real-instrument version of Guitar Hero. Instead of monkeying around with a 5 button faux guitar, you play a real instrument and the system detects the tone actually played, deciding whether or not it matches the riff that is being output.Cornell's microcontroller projects at Hackzine - Link.
What's really killer about all of these projects is that the are thoroughly documented, with full source, circuit diagrams, and a discussion of design decisions. If anything inspires you, you don't have to recreate the wheel to start working on your own ideas. ...And with the diversity and number of projects on the site, somthing's bound to inspire you.
Posted by Becky Stern |
Nov 15, 2007 12:31 PM
Computers, Electronics, Robotics |
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Hum-able ode to Pleo
I have to admit, when I got email from our pal Robert Oschler, of RobotsRule, announcing that he'd penned a little ditty about Pleo the robot dino pet, I thought I might puke. But harsh truths be told, I've been humming the damn thing all morning! Catchy kids fare. Okay, maybe I did throw up a little in my mouth. YMMV.
Pleo page on Robots Rule - Link
Posted by Gareth Branwyn |
Nov 15, 2007 11:19 AM
Robotics, Toys and Games |
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November 13, 2007
Roomba meets the XO-1
No Roomba left behind. Here's a cool Instructable on how to control and add telepresence to a Roomba using a OLPC XO-1 laptop.
OLPC Telepresence - [via] Link
Posted by Gareth Branwyn |
Nov 13, 2007 05:42 PM
Instructables, Robotics |
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Two-motor quadcore BEAM walker
We've talked about bicore nervous net BEAM circuits in the pages of MAKE. This two motor walker uses four "neurons" in its brain and is therefore called a quadcore. It's basically two linked, oscillating signals that create a four-legged walking gate over the two motors. Two photodiodes make the walker light-seeking (or.. um .. shadow avoiding).
2 motor 4 leg shadow avoiding quadracore - [via] Link
Posted by Gareth Branwyn |
Nov 13, 2007 06:00 AM
Electronics, Robotics |
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Preparing cocktail robots for roboexotica
Roboexotica gathers a wide variety of cocktail robot makers from around the world and bring them together for robot parties and presentations. I'm in Southern Austria in the city of Graz today visiting the information design college where a group of artists who are putting their cocktail robots together. The group shown above is in the process of putting together a scary evil bunny robot that pours drinks for you at the flip of a switch. There is also a group making a slot machine robot that pumps you a drink when you cash out your coins. I'm doing an internship in Vienna this month and will be reporting on Roboexotica as it happens. Stay tuned! - Link
Posted by Bre Pettis |
Nov 13, 2007 05:14 AM
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November 8, 2007
Roboexotica
Roboexotica is coming, Thu, Nov 22 2007 thru Sun, Nov 25 2007 @ Museumsquartier Wien, Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Vienna. If you want robots that serve you drinks well this is the best place on earth to find them... -
Until recently, no attempts had been made to publically discuss the role of cocktail robotics as an index for the integration of technological innovations into the human Lebenswelt, or to document the increasing occurrence of radical hedonism in man-machine communication. Roboexotica is an attempt to fill this vacuum. It is the first and, inevitably, the leading festival concerned with cocktail robotics world-wide. A micro mechanical change of paradigm in the age of borderless capital. Alan Turing would doubtless test this out.Roboexotica - [via] Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Nov 8, 2007 09:00 AM
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Roomba 500 series open interface
iRobot published the 500 series (New Roomba) open interface specs, this is GREAT news and I'm thrilled that iRobot keeps opening up the interfaces for their fantastic robotic vacuums - Link (PDF).
Related:
HOW TO - Roomba Bluetooth Interface - Link.
HOW TO - Make a Roomba Serial Interface - Link.
iRobot 500 series - Link.
Open source hardware, what is it? - Link.
More:
Tons and tons of Roomba projects - Link & Roomba Hacking from our pal Todbot - Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Nov 8, 2007 05:00 AM
DIY Projects, Electronics, Open source hardware, Robotics |
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