Most three and four wheel drive omnidirectional robots cost $500 and up and are usually intended for the research rather than the hobbyist market. For those who have the knowledge to design and build their own omniwheel driven robot, matching all the parts can be a daunting task: finding the right …
We all love Arduino. This open-source microcontroller is incredibly successful, mainly thanks to the fact that it is powerful, very simple to program, and has allowed the community to develop derivatives and accessories. Arduino Leonardo Recently, there has been a new addition to the Ard
About Arduino Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. It's intended for artists, designers, hobbyists, and anyone interested in creating interactive objects or environments. Arduino can sense the environment by receiving i…
Making a robotic arm is a good introductory project for those wanting to get started with robotics. A simple robot arm can be straight forward to build and would require hobby servo motors to actuate each joint, a control system such as the Arduino, and a power source. Nevertheless, one of the mos
We all like the World's Most Useless Machine. For those who do not know what it is, see the video below, it is pretty funny and self-explanatory. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z86V_ICUCD4 Lately, we saw a more robotic and definitely more moody useless machine. As shown in the video below, this ma
This insane creation, entirely made out of LEGO, came to us via our forum. Not satisfied with making a single pick-and-place delta robot, Shep built four of them and put them above a conveyor belt and made them sort colored blocks. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VxCl6w3HS0 The video shows h
Skynet is slowly becoming a reality. A Google researcher suggests that the future of robotics is in cloud-computing. This means that robots could offload their more complex tasks to remote servers that could do the heavy computations. It also means that robots could instantly learn new skills
We all dream of having appliances and machines that can obey our spoken commands. Well, let's take the first step towards making this happen. In this second iteration of Carlitos' Projects, we are going to build a speech-controlled Arduino-based robot. You may be thinking that makin
This is the first in a series of electronic or robotic DIY projects. These projects are accompanied by instructional videos that will help you trough the many steps involved in completing the task at hand. For this first iteration, we are making an RGB LED Mood Cube. Glowing colour-changing obj
This is a nice video from a while ago describing how to quickly and cheaply put together a robot by using an old RC toy, an Arduino (actually a Seeeduino), a Ping distance sensor and a couple of other components. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc6DKDFwg9c More in-depth videos of the construc
For all of those wanting to have a robot floor cleaner such as the Mint but not being able to afford such a luxury, there is always the choice of doing it yourself...with LEGO! Pulito, was built following precisely this spirit. The video below shows the robot navigating and cleaning around the hou…
RobotGrrl has been busy refurbishing an old robot of hers. It is not the first time that her Technorobot has changed jobs: it has been an emotional line follower prototype, a snowplow, and now it became an XBee messenger robot. Refurbishing it was OK, it only took 4 hours. The only thing that w
We offer you this moment of inspiration for National Robotics Week. A student from Togo, Sam TODO, has succeeded in creating a robot prototype with some used television parts. The imagination knows no limits. Even without the financial means. His robot is called SAM10. Sam wants to try to mak…
RobotBox user jbot added a nifty blog post today about using his robot to paint with light. Inspired by images of Roomba's with LEDs, he added a set of LEDs to his robot, PlexiBot and took some long exposure photos as PlexiBot traveled around. The results are quite beautiful.
The "Gulper AUV" is an underwater vehicle that is programmed to look for information of use to the scientific community. Gulper AUV Sub-Aquatic Robot The group explains that it has 'trained' the robot to retrieve the highest-quality information back to …
A french company, named Parrot, unveiled an iPhone controlled, wifi-enabled, quadrocopter at CES 2010. The robot, called the AR.Drone, is a sophisticated and snazzy quadrocopter that is controlled via an iPhone or iPod Touch over a wifi connection. The AR.Drone has two onboard cameras, one of wh
