Well my question is what will you do if someone has given you 1600 euros to buy everything you want but only robotics stuff?
Say your opinion and say why will you choose what you choosed .(for every single thing).
Wireless camera (eyes
Wireless camera (eyes )
Voice recognition (half side of brain)
Speakers ( I mean literally - tongue)
CO2 and other sensors (nose)
then some good batteries and some mechanical stuff
Hmmm Don’t have my partslist
Hmmm Don’t have my partslist handy, but it would sum up to everything I need to build an awesome, large hexapod.
Servo’s (18 or so of them, legs and head and tail assembly)
Microcontroller board (Probably an Arduino Mega or clone)
Servo controller
All materials for the body, legs, etc.
Why?
Simply because hexapods are what pulled me to robotics and it’s something I’ve been pondering on building for quite a while, but lack the funds to get it done.
1. Maker Bot2. CNC machine3.
1. Maker Bot
2. CNC machine
3. Laser cutter
4. the rest of the money will be spend in parts for a spider bot or biped humanoid bot.
Ok, I know that’s a lot of things and may not be affordable for 1600 Euro but that’s my list when i close my eyes for a moment 
Save it
On the other hand
Some kind of multicopter( quadcopter, tricopter )
Android device to program for a remote control
A well stocked workplace
cad software- though if you are a student autodesk stuff is free
cnc machine
Smaller stuff
arduino mega
lots of sensors <------
batterys
well designed mecanical system
These are a few of my pics. From my interest in robotics I have noticed that it is best to teach yourself the knowledge of making robots before you purchase parts.
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Ok , if you have to choose between a reprap mendel 3d printer , a cnc machine like fireball v90 , a robotis bioloid premnium kit ,
and a spider what would this be?
You only have one time to choose something and pinpoint advantages and disadvantages of the others that lead you to your choice.
I would choose a 3D printer.
I would choose a 3D printer. You can never go wrong with tools. You could build an expensive robot, but if you are like me then it will just sit in your room when it is done. So I would go with a 3D printer which you can use to make robot after robot. Plus you would have money to spare. A man is only as good as his tools.
Tough one…
Very tough…
The robot kits sound interesting but the machines are awesome as well.
I Would go for the CNC machine.
Why?
Well, a 3d printer is awesome, but a CNC machine doesn’t just do plastics but wood (and hopefully metals).
The robot kits are fantastic, but the CNC machine allows you to make awesome parts yourself, which allows for more design versatility.
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And why not a cnc machine ?
Well this was what "I would
Well this was what “I would buy”. I do not need a CNC machine, but a 3D printer would help. You could get both.
3D printer - most every
3D printer - most every project you build could probably benefit from a small plastic thing-a-ma-bob that you could make yourself (with almost no material waste).
CNC- most useful for larger builds and complex mechanical designs.
At 3 in the morning, I’m most likely to need a small plastic thing-a-ma-bob to hold a sensor in place. If I had a 3D printer - well, I’m in business. If at 3 in the morning I really need a new fabricated chasis platform, well, I should just go to bed and take some drawings and cold beer to the local machine shop the next day.
As a proud owner of a 3D
As a proud owner of a 3D printer I would highly recommend it. Apart from the material choice I can’t really see what you could build with a CNC router that you can’t make with a 3D printer (with exception of milling your own PCB’s but I’ll rather send them off to a bard house).
So if you have money to burn, go for a 3D printer!
so…
So I including the opinion of all I decided on going for a 3d printer but what 3d printer , reprap mendel or makerbot?
Say your opionion and why you choosed what you choosed.
I have no experiance with
I have no experiance with the reprap but it seems to be more of a hassle to get a complete kit.
The Thing-O-Matic kit that I put together was a great experience. It is still a lot of work and would probably take you 5-6 evenings to assemble, but it’s great fun.
There is also a third option http://blog.ultimaker.com/2011/03/28/ultimaker-available-for-pre-order/
Well I thing that there are
Well I thing that there are complete kits , in mendelparts
in botmile , in thefutureis3d and many other sites .
I dont think that this is a problem.
In my opinion this why I should go for a mendel ,cause is opensource ,has more space to print , has updated electronics while
makerbot is stuck to the third generation electronics of reprap and reprap mendel is now on 6th generation and it is still
being developed that it means you can upgrade to the newer version and customize it to your needs.
An this is why I should go for a makerbot , cause is more user friendly its opensource too , has a more user friendly
software enviroment and has great apearanace while the reprap mendel lacks on the last three.
You have good arguments for
You have good arguments for both printers. As I said I have no experience with the mendel but from my point of view and the type of work I do, the makebot seems perfect. As I don’t want to spend a lot of time fiddling with the printer and I just want it to work.
I might upgrade the ToM sometime in the future but not just for the sake of updating.
The way it works now is perfect, and its easy to move from my desk to store somewhere else as I don’t need it online and ready all the time.
Some people spend more time upgrading and fine tuning their printer than building other fun stuff. I think it somehow boils down to what your interest is.
a) the printer itself is the hobby
b) it’s just a tool
I’m definitely a ‘b’
Then yes I will have to
Then yes I will have to agree with you an be in the b category.
So I will buy a makerbot and if in the future if I have the proper money needed I will make reprap mendel myshelf and I will
need half of the money needed since I can print the printable parts in my makerbot.
So I decided about this one.
Though I need some other stuff there is a list below .
I need an ethernet shield , a bnc shield the one solarbotics sells, a gps receiver , an sd card shield , an electrode with bnc connector , some luxeon leds to light up my Aquarduino , a temperature sensor that can be made waterproof somehow,
a breakout board for my nds touch screen , a lipo battery at 7,2 volts or greater and 2000 or greater mah , a charger/balancer for the lipo , an electronic compass , a sonar for my USV-P1 project something like the one you used in a project of yours Geir,
and a motor driver for my USV-P1, Im between the wild tumber motor controller and 2 of those HB25 .
While you wait for the
While you wait for the makerbot to arrive you might read up on the assembly instructions. It’s a bit of work but a fun build. http://wiki.makerbot.com/thingomatic-doc:thingomatic-assembly-instructions It’s better to read through this without the boxes on your desk and being pumped up to start building.
On a personal note I would recommend that you go for the heated build platform instead of the automated build platform.
I started out with the automated build platform but as I’m not making a production line it was a bit of a waste. The regular heated platform seems to me to be a better starting point.
I removed the automated build belt and now work on a heated platform with several layers of heat resistant tape (part of the kit)
So it is just an adjustment
So it is just an adjustment and not something extra?
The ToM kit includes three
The ToM kit includes three different build platforms. So it’s up to you to select the one you will be using. http://wiki.makerbot.com/thingomatic-doc:x-stage-choice