The builder claims these cars will find the racetrack in any room and race it! How? It seems these little racecars use ultra-sonic sensors and a Picaxe to keep them a predetermined distance away form the walls.
Via Makezine | Posted on 2008.06.12 at 03:46
The fifth annual RoboGames is happening this weekend in San Francisco. RoboGames is a broad reaching competition designed to bring together specialists in all areas of robotics.
Via Hack a Day | Posted on 2008.06.11 at 19:22
By way of Hack A Day comes this hexapod robot that does CNC fabrication. Only recently has [Matt] started playing with CNC. First, he did a pen plotter proof of concept.
Via Makezine | Posted on 2008.06.11 at 17:54
Bens shares video of his Atmega168-based bot mapping and solving a line maze - This was my first attempt at making a maze solver and I wrote the code from scratch the night before our last local robotics competition, so there's plenty of room for improvment (for example, it would be cool if it could handle mazes with loops or irregular intersections).
Via Makezine | Posted on 2008.06.11 at 08:03
. . . with circuit schematics and PCB layout. Near Future Laboratory.
Via Makezine | Posted on 2008.06.10 at 17:50
Via Suicide Bots comes this amazing mechanical walker with this caption:
Giant mechanical spiders take away some of the hurt in the world. Yes. Yes they do.
Via Makezine | Posted on 2008.06.10 at 17:49
RoboGames (formerly ROBOlympics) is happening THIS WEEKEND in San Francisco, CA, MAKE is a sponsor!
RoboGames is the world's largest open robot competition (even the Guinness Book of World Records says so!) We invite the best minds from around the world to compete in over 70 different events.
Via Makezine | Posted on 2008.06.10 at 12:13
Kristi Morgansen of the University of Washington, has been working on developing underwater robots that are maneuverable, not disruptive to the environment, and can work as a team to collect data in 3 D's situations - that is, jobs that are dirty, dull, and dangerous.
Via Makezine | Posted on 2008.06.09 at 08:42
[bre] passed along this portrait drawing robot from the same people that brought you the chief cook robot. Like the previous project, the portrait drawing bot emphasizes man machine interaction.
Via Hack a Day | Posted on 2008.06.08 at 17:52
This detailed Instructable shows you how to build your own Wall-E robot, star of the forthcoming Disney/Pixar film of the same name. Wall-E Robot [via].
Via Makezine | Posted on 2008.06.06 at 16:26