Posted February 20, 2011 by Chris

This robot has built in functionality for line following, object avoiding and ‘victim finding’. A PIC micro allows to it be able to do all these at once. Check the project write-up to see the hardware schematics, software & parts list.

Posted February 14, 2011 by Chris

If you’re looking to build a cheap and easy DIY robot platform, this is the project to follow. The platform consits of a cheap R/C vehicle, Arduino microcontroller and XBee WiFi. The XBee module allows for clean WiFi communication to your desktop for control or information processing.

Posted February 10, 2011 by Chris

This robot is controlled by calling the cell phone attached to it and pressing keys on your cell phone. The cell phone attached to the robot receives and decodes the dial tones and the robot moves accordingly. The project write-up has a good explanation of how it’s done.

Posted January 31, 2011 by Chris

Robotic snakes have come into light more recently as a unique type of robot that can move into tight spaces and go where other wheeled robots cannot. This project goes through the design of a basic snake robot that moves through locomotion of motors.

Posted January 30, 2011 by Chris

This project takes a new look at I-swarm robots with miniature locomotion bots. An impressive full system integration is built and shown in some action videos. Custom asics allow for each tiny bot to communicate with the others around and perform actions synchronously.

Posted January 29, 2011 by Chris

Any attempt at dead-reckoning in autonomous vehicles is at present extremely difficult. Without expensive sensors the accumulated error grows exponentially with time. The WFR robot takes a shot at trying out some dead-reckoning navigation techniques for location tracking.

Posted January 28, 2011 by Chris

Vestal designers purchased cheap robotic toy dogs, reverse engineered their CPU’s, and reprogrammed them to “hunt” toxic waste. Building upon this experience, later models (pictured above) were built from scratch to meet the all-terrain needs of the urban environment.

Posted January 24, 2011 by Chris

This robot called “LuminAR” shines a display on your desk and you can select it with your finger. This is registered the robot provides more options. It is seemingly like a having a sixth sense, but really its just advanced robotics at work to integrate into human lives.

Posted January 23, 2011 by Chris

This robot built by boston dynamics was built with climbing telephone polls in mind. It does so in a similar way that humans currently climb them with spiked feet. Check out the pics and action vid. Unfortunately this robot isn’t open source.

Posted January 16, 2011 by Chris

Taking a break from raw electronics for a day: Here’s a site that has some cool cut-out and glue/tape together robots. The picture to the right is an example of one. Build your own army of paper robots!